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My Yahoo email and IM has been hacked

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My yahoo account has been penetrated on my Mac computer. A virus is going through all of my contacts and randomly selects 3 contacts and emails them from what appears to be my account. My free Sophos trial version was able to locate some files, which I deleted. However, it hasn't helped to stop more damage. Currently someone is going online in my Yahoo Messenger, is using my photo and is posing as me, trying to get my contacts to take an IQ test. This happened when I was asleep and my computer was off! Although Sophos found some contaminated files and I manually removed them...this new IM hacker is occurring.  I have a MAC single processor with OSX 10.4.4. Sophos is not picking up anymore files or is able to prevent someone from hacking my email account.  What can i do to permanently eliminate this hacker from my computer? Thanks!

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    When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender . Maybe .... the hacker could be someone you already know (It happened to my bestfriend)

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    When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender . Maybe .... the hacker could be someone you already know (It happened to my bestfriend)

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