Is there any software due to which u can hijack someones password for yahoo what care can be taken 2 avoid it?
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it is possible, but it happens when someone hacks into your system and goes through your passwords which are stored in your system. you need to get something like zonealarm which prevents illegal access, also in the chat rooms wen you answer a insant message you are creating a direct link that allows the person on the other end a door to enter into your system
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Use a strong password ( mix of upper case, lower case and numeric characters), and change your password often.  \n\nAlso, create an account he wouldn't know about, perhaps yahoo mail, forward e-mail you want to keep to it, and then delete it from your original account.\n\nFinally, you can make your e-mail unreadable to anyone other than the intended receipiant by using an encryption utility such as GNU Privacy Guard.\n\nwww.gnupg.org\n\nGood luck!
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Hi,\n\nI don't think that can be done as the password control is safe in Yahoo's hand. At least I've never seen a program that can access a user profile to change a password. \n\nPerhaps you can explain the reason why you need to change the password frequently. Maybe someone will have a whole new set of solutions for you.
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go to http://help.yahoo.com/help/security/
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If you think your Yahoo! account was hacked, the first thing you should try is to reset the password. You can do this by going to http://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile and clicking on "Change Password"\n\nIf you can't sign in, then you should contact Yahoo! Customer Care. They should be able to reset your password for you if you can verify who you are, and things about your account.\n\nYahoo! Customer Care:\nhttp://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/security/cgi_feedback
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Go the the Yahoo Help page, under security heading. Follow the steps.
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Its 9 way to hack your email,but all methods its illegal,so don t try it!\n\n1-First and easy is to retrieve your personal information,like  birthday date,and others personal info,(its easy if you use a chat) then the hacker simple go in a option of email "forgot the password?"and put the information about you in the answer fields,+ secret answere,so if the secret answere is "what is your pet name?" the hacker can ask you on a normal discussion if you have a pet or someting ele and the name of him,then use this information to answere at the secret answere,and the password is ghiven from the server.\n\n2-If anyone have access to your computer ,he can simply install a keylogger on your computer,its a simply software ,this software record all you type with your keyboard and its undetectable. \n\n3-Need Just a simple password recovery software,he can install it on your pc,is  undetectable and this software can automatic decrypt password in the coockies installed in your pc, in special if you have messenger installed \n\n 4-Simple backdoor installed on your pc,like subseven or netbus,or anothers software like password senders these software send automatic all password and information on hacker email or direct to the backdoor client in real time. \n\n 5-Exploit ,its very difficoult to use an exploit,and the server must have a bug to try this hack method,but is not impossible.\n\n 6-Use Brute force software,these software simply use a dictionary and try in automatic mutch passwords to log in your e-mail account \n\n 7-Fake Login screen,its a fake page like your original mail login screen,but is not your real page,and is not on the email server,its only a fake page builded by hacker like the original e-mail page login,and if you put your \n\n password & id in the fields...the password will be send in automatic in the hacker email,and you redirect to the real yahoo page login screen or another website,greeting card etc.. \n\n 8-Hack the database of the server email.\n \n 9-Just use a trick like this:"Send an email to the Y!mail router server (new addy is here). You send it a letter and usually it will send you on back in less than 24 hours (unless there is high traffic on the Yahoo mail server of course). \nSend a letter to pwd_password_recovery@hacker.com, within the Subject heading place the word "Password router" (not in quotes but has to have a capital P) this way the automated router recognizes your search. Then in the first line of the text field type "password retrieval". Place the name of the yahoo \naccount you want to retrieve that password for into the second line (Do not put @yahoo.com after the ID). In the next line put "Rtrv User; 6391, #1" (the commands for the robot \n, processing the mail). Finally, type "Reply-to: " and your e-mail address and password, separated by a semicolon so that the router recognizes it and can send you the mail answering your request. Here is an example:\n\nTo: password_recovery@hacker.com\nbcc:\ncc:\nSubject: Password router\n\npassword retrieval\nID you want to retrieve password for\nRtrv User; 6391, #1\nReply-to: myemail@yahoo.com:mypassword\n\nThat's all.\n"\nTHIS IS NOT E VERY HACK METHOD,but if you try to hack anyone and you try this method,you will be hacked by this hacker with email password_recovery@hacker.com,this is not a robot,but is a real email from an hacker!with this method you just send your email and password to another hacker..!so dont beleave in this method!\nIf you want see how many tools exist to hack emails you can see that at http://yacam.altervista.org\nA computer SAFE is a computer turned OFF.
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You can't "tell" but try to change your Yahoo! ID's password - the best and simple way.
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You shud contact Yahoo! it is really hard to retive your password back!
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It is impossible to check to who has changed your yahoo password.. it is up to you to keep your password securd.. how did you find out the new password that was used? \n\nTry sending an email to yourself and see where it ends up..
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I think what your really after, is finding out what are behind the Astericks...\n\nTry out the Password Decryptor Program from http://www.rohitab.com
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goto www.download.com\nget a copy of Spybot, spyware blaster and Hijackthis.\ngoto a hijack this forum and read how to post.\nPut hijackthis into its own folder in c:&#92;programs\nrun it and post the log in the forum...\nDO NOT DELETE ANYTHING until the forum have replied!! As you can do serious damage!! They usually reply within 48 hours!!\n\nA Hijack attempt is just that there was an attempt to redirect your browser to another website!! If you made your home page www.yahoo.co.uk  this program tries to change it to www.xxx.com or when you search for something directs you to other pages!!
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It looks like code for Yahoo's login.  yahoouser2000#105/pass... would be for your userID, Fcn7662Nc2A_md5encryp_get_pass... would be for your password since it does an md5 encryption.
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Here is how:\n\nhttp://www.openwall.com/john/ \n\nUsing this kind of software, even I can hack your password if I know you as a close friend or acquaintance or even your user ID. let's call it educated guess. Why don't you try the same trick on your friend now.
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That depends in part on who your provider is. The biggest danger is that many places use your email addy as your user name. This means having your email addy gives them half the access they need for example to have a go at getting at your banking records. If you use a simple password there is a real danger. Do not use whole words, personal data like birth dates, names of relitives/friends/pets as a password. Always mix numbers or uppercase chars with letters. Never use a purely numeric or alphabetic password. \n\nIf your email provider is a local ISP they can locate what town you live in. In the old days a utility called finger would actually dig up quite a bit of info. If you have a static IP there still might be detailed info availible on you. This does not apply to web based email like Yahoo. Most ISPs block finger requests nowdays. I was able to stop a man from harrassing a woman once back in the early 90s by fingering him and calling him to discuss the problem. All of this I got from just an email addy. \n\nAs pointed out your name could be sold to spammers or used as the return address of spammers. That is worse since many places still use black lists and your email addy could be permanently blocked from sending mail to whole companies because a spammer used it to spoof. Worse if the password is easy to crack a hacker might take over your email addy and use it as part of hacking attempts. If you use Internet Explorer or Outlook to read your email you are especially vulnerable to this. Every month it seems a new exploit comes out which allows a hacker to send you s specially crafted message, which if you open it will then give the hacker control over your machine. Firefox has fewer of these vulnerabilities and they are usually addressed quicker when they happen. The danger is significant if you do online banking and or bill pay. Switching to Firefox for web browsing and a different email client such as Thunderbird or Evolution will greatly decrease your risks of getting hacked\nin such a way.  Outlook is known as Outbreak in the computer security circles because of Outlook's constant and severe security problems. Use that only as a last resort option until you can get a better email client. \n\nDo a search on your email address. You might be surprised how much somebody could learn about you. Many web pages are created by ametuers with no idea how to block web spiders from sensitive areas. This means that a well meaning volenteer in a club or organization you belong too could be broadcasting quite a bit of detail about you. Details that sometimes include physical address, hobbies, interests, associations, phone number and other sensitive details. Most people will turn up nothing. Mine for example turned up a page from an online game I used to play and a membership page at a fantasy baseball site. Searching on another of my email addys turned up answers to Linux questions, a submission to a lyrics site, and two other pages of info. So an enemy or stalker could learn quite a bit about a person from just their email addy if you are quite active on the web. What I tend to do is use a couple email addys for high profile stuff such as memberships to public areas, online games and other unimportant stuff. Then I have about four email addys I use for memberships to more sensitive accounts and for good friends and other important email. This reduces risks and makes it easier to find email I really want to read as my public email addys are the ones sold to spam lists and lifted by spammer's web spiders from careless web designers.\n\nOverall your risks are low. Taking a few precautions such as using a public email addy and a more secure private email addy, strong passwords and not using insecure software will provide more insurance.  Today for the moment, unless somebody really has it out for you the odds are that nobody will bother you. There are tens of millions of email addys out there. Most of these are broadcasted in so
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Firstly your password on your yahoo id should be between 20-25 characters which is numbers, upper and lower case letters and symbols mixed up. Its not spose to be one you can remember as in making any sense. (no names or date of birth etc) What you do is create a text document and paste it in there and each time you need it, open the document and copy it and paste it in. No password cracker program will get your password if you do that.\n\nSecondly dont give out your password to anyone at all for any reason.\n\nThirdly dont go clicking on any sites that are pasted by people in chat rooms or pms no matter how appealing they sound.\n\nFourthly if anything is asking you to enter your id and password that isnt www.yahoo.com dont be entering it.\n\nFifthly always clean out your temporary internet files and cookies. Makes it hard for them to track where you have been and gather information on you.\n\nSixthly be careful for people who phish on the net. As in asking you questions that dont seem real obvious but are actually things like your first school, first car, pet name, age/date of birth/starsign, your proper name or whereabouts etc. They try and use those to take your account. Those are the questions Yahoo ask you for secret questions and to gain access to your account should you lose your password.\n\nSeventhly be especially careful when downloading programs from sites. Some programs contain spyware, malicious code, malware, hijackers, keyloggers etc where people can sit and watch you enter your personal details on your computer and then save your details and use them themselves.\n\nEighthly be especially careful when people are sending you pictures of themselves or files to you such as on yahoo. These can contain keyloggers also. If someone wants to show you their picture tell them to put it on their profile for a second and you will view it on there or to put their cam on. Dont accept any of their files or pictures.\n\nIf you stick to these guidelines you'll be fine.\n\nGood Luck
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I've been hacked before. To prevent such events, have a Anti-Virus program, Windows Defender (if you're using Windows), a Firewall and update your system regularly.\n\nI think there are some programs that would offer an option to hide your IP address.\n\nAnd to avoid being hacked for password, try not to save any important password in your computer. For example, you might have a dail-up connection set up and you've saved your password on the dailer. Hackers could easily find a software to reveal what is saved. Even if it is hexed when you see it on your screen.\n\nCheck the included link. I think that would help.\nGood luck.