Victim of a scam?

[TonyIOW]

Hi all,

I just received a email message from (supposedly)Yahoo on my hotmail account, advising me that someone was using my hotmail email address to set up a Yahoo account. The Yahoo page, and address looked genuine. There was a section at the bottom which prompted me to click a link if it wasn't me who had set up this Yahoo account. I did so, and was directed to a screen asking me to hit a button, either agreeing to open the account or to stop it being open. I did the latter, and received a message that the yahoo account had been blocked. I was not asked to enter any personal info or to do anything other than click the link.

It was only when I looked again that I noticed a little logo saying that "the sender of the message could not be verified by sender id". Doh! It was at this point that I started to grow donkey ears!!!

I have AVG antivirus and zone alarm firewall installed and fully updated on my pc. I'm concerned though that by clicking a link to what now seems to be a spoof email I may have corrupted my online security.

Any of you pc experts out there have any advice as to what, if anything I can or should do now for damage limitation?

Cheers, Tony

 

[centaur]

It may actually be genuine, but even if not and assuming you didn't actually give any personal details, it could be simply a 'fishing expedition' to find a genuine email address to send spam mesages to.
If so, you'll not be surprised to find your inbox full of it shortly !

 

[Dickieboy]

It's difficult to say what you may have done, as you didn't give any personal info you should be ok from that aspect, however you may have unwittingly allowed a trojan/keylogger onto your system or some other type of spyware.
Run the usual checks, Spybot, Adaware and download xray-pc and run that, and then don't ever open an email of that nature again
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http://www.x-raypc.com/download.php
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Edit
Rgarding centaurs comment he could be right, so if you haven't already done so download IE 7 install and put the phishing filter on. There are others on the site who can advise you re Firefox if you use it and they will most probably do so.

 

[TonyIOW]

Thanks guys...I've done the usual scans and they come up all clear...I confess, I was unaware of the phishing filter on IE7 though; I appreciate the tip! Tony