re: Spam being sent from my yahoo mail account

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I get these yahoo spam mails from other people from time to time. Does your anti-virus do real-time checking of your e-mails? Sometimes you have to enable that in the anti-virus settings. FYI, I use Mozilla e-mail client and Trend Micro security package.

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I use the web-based client.

Oddly enough I cleared out all of my contacts and exported them to my desktop a few months ago. The spam this morning had many of my contacts from before I deleted my whole contacts list. I can't imagine it is scanning through my emails to get email addresses to send it to (can it?).