Good move. Has anyone emailed him to inform him his computer email
program has been compromised?

Tor

Believe it or not, he might not be infected as his email address could be
spoofed. He has no control over that, sadly.

Bob

I’m not being terse. This is from my mobile.
On May 19, 2011 8:57 AM, “Silverheels” wrote:

That could be, but Yahoo has had security problems (hence their desire to
have you upgrade your account now to the ‘more secure’ version of their
email.) Since Paul uses his Yahoo account, that could have been compromised
without affecting his machine.

Sadly, because the sender and the envelope on emails don’t have to match
(some email programs don’t even check for that), anyone could send an email
to anyone else and have it look like it came from a third party.

I know my Gmail account was hacked once (fortunately, Google helped fix
that) and now it’s all good until someone hacks Google again…

My personal opinion is that spammers and hackers should die. And not
quickly or cleanly. With great pain, extended time, and hopefully including
flaying. If a spammer wastes 2 seconds of my time, then he potentially
wastes 140 million seconds of humanity’s time, or potentially 4.43
man-years. assuming an average of 10 spam mails a day, an entire life can be
wasted every two days (and I don’t know anyone that only gets 10 spams a
day). Hackers are far worse. They waste everyone’s time.

I’m just sayin’ here.

Bob

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:24 AM, pat noordsij wrote: