"Dear friend" peste!

Seems a spammer got hold of my Yahoo!Mail addresses—or worse, my password—using my email address, it forwarded this message to several (but not all) contacts in my Yahoo! contacts list:

Dear friend ~~ 2--p

I have a Japanese friend who tells me that he works in a Japanese company. I visited the company he works for and found their products quite favorable. And the products have many versions, such as European version, American version, and the Asian version etc. All the company's products have photos in the internet.I suggest you take a look in this website: www.zol-trade.com. You will certainly be interested in some products. Thank you k--g
o--^

Yahoo! Answers ('dear friend' emails) says my computer and email password could have been compromised by a malicious program (which records keystrokes) and now part of a botnet. A TechWorld article tells me to get rid of Windows since it's a Window's problem.

I looked in the Yahoo!Mail 'sent' box—the spam were sent out on 2 dates: May 23 and July 13 (yesterday). Hmm. My desktop PC dual-boots Windows and Linux. I mostly use Linux, my roommates are more comfortable with Windows. I no longer control the software being installed on the Windows side because i'm about to wipe it clean and start again. Maybe it's due to a downloaded freeware—i notice new toolbars on da browser i don't remember installing.

D@ng! I'd better change all my passwords and nuke da Windows partition—as soon as one of my roommates buys a monitor dis week for da extra pc downstairs.

My friends, if you received a similar email from me, i didn't do it. Also please check your sent mail box and see if there's any email you don't remember emailing. If there are, and you don't own the computer you're using to send emails, you can try downloading and burning a Linux live CD and boot from that and change your password from there.

Don't porget to googel or yahow serts por details hehe.

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