I had a very similar thing happen on my Yahoo mail account a couple of months ago, as did someone else I know on their hotmail. I only realised mail had been sent out by the undelivered messages bouncing back from defunct addresses on my list. I'm ultra cautious when it comes to anti-virus/malware so I was puzzled how it could happen. All I could think of was shortly before, I had clicked on one of those irritating 'chat requests' which are obviously spam to delete it, but  I didn't quite hit the X, and it opened. I remember spending ages going through all the settings to try and stop these spam chats for good, but yahoo in their wisdom don't make it easy. The first thing I did was change my password. I did the usual anti-virus scans but nothing showed up. That was the only occurence, fortunately. Presumably the scum behind these viruses are able to easily adapt them for yahoo, hotmail and gmail.

Truly a sad day!!!! :cry2: R.I.P. Stepen

:alarm: Maybe all politicians need this wake up call  :whistle: but honestly thanx guys   for your comments and as you say too simple …. ::). However sometimes the simplest of solutions are those staring us in our faces and erm sometimes politicians can be looking too hard for a solution  ???, when all the time its there right in front of us leatherbear  for a sec seeing your smiley thought I was to become the first one to get the £1m severance for early retirement :-[ now I gotta carry on mgr awesome thought why yes wonder if you could translate it into German-maybe another eye opening but be careful as other members may want it translated into many languages too :-X