Help with repeated Yahoo Mail Hacks

[gdr_11]

Thanks for all of the input. I run Windows 7 and I do have two different Yahoo mail and one Gmail account, but only one of them has been having the problems.

Last night I ran full scans with Spybot and the Microsoft Malware tool. Spybot found 149 items that I removed (I scan weekly and never find anything). The Microsoft tool found nothing.

I noticed at the end of the Spybot scan that it showed it scanning a large number of zlob files which I know is a trojan, but none of the scans showed any zlob infections. I will follow Kokopelli's advice and dump AVG and swithc to AVAST

[ElvenSoul]

Commodo is very good

[cs101]

Death to spammers.

[the86d]

There's your problem. Dump those two programs and run AVAST! antivirus (free to home users) and Malwarebytes. (Also free.)

I've repaired many computers that had AVG that were infected.

Stuff gets by every AV I have seen people use, Norton Internet Security, Symantec corp, a reboot usually catches most of them, but some hide in the restore area of your Windows drive. Sometimes you can do an avast scan, or Malwarebytes scan in safemode and that will catch more that is hiding itself from the AV/malware scanner.

Kaspersky seems to catch more than any other AV, but I run AVAST free at home due to cost, and I can reinstall Windows if I ever need to (1x in the last 5 years, but that was due to upgrading my drive, wanting to start fresh on x64 Win7 [from x86], and not wanting to Ghost).

[ElvenSoul]

Stuff gets by every AV I have seen people use, Norton Internet Security, Symantec corp, a reboot usually catches most of them, but some hide in the restore area of your Windows drive. Sometimes you can do an avast scan, or Malwarebytes scan in safemode and that will catch more that is hiding itself from the AV/malware scanner.

Kaspersky seems to catch more than any other AV, but I run AVAST free at home due to cost, and I can reinstall Windows if I ever need to (1x in the last 5 years, but that was due to upgrading my drive, wanting to start fresh on x64 Win7 [from x86], and not wanting to Ghost).

Could just run Linux and have hardly any virus worries!