[NTLUG:Discuss] Security question

[Stuart Johnston]

In Yahoo, go to Options => Mail Options => Mail Accounts.

Is there an account listed there with your HostGator info?  That is one 
way your business email could get into your Yahoo mail. How that might 
have been setup without your knowledge, I don't know.


On 06/11/2012 11:04 AM, Fred wrote:
> I am really confused about something that just happened here.
> I had my Yahoo mail open as well as a webmail page for my
> business email, hosted by HostGator. The Yahoo mail stopped
> for a couple of minutes, gave me a time out error, said try again
> and when it finally started working, lo and behold there, in a
> brand new folder in my Yahoo mail are copies of each of my
> emails from my business inbox.
>
> WTF? My first reaction was to think that somehow HostGator
>
> had entered into some unholy alliance with Yahoo. I still am
> leaning that way because I cannot see how anything on this end
>
> would have been able to do that. Besides, doesn't malware just
>
> steal the info and send it off somewhere? It wouldn't build a new
> inbox folder and put the files in there, all nice and neat. I really
> don't understand this one at all.
>
>
> Any ideas, insight, etc?
>
> Fred
>
>
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