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IMHO, I think yahoo has a serious server side flaw that is being exploited by hackers/spammers.

I say this because I work in networks and information security and even my yahoo email was used to send spam. Now, I use MD5 hashes as my passwords, so they are all unique and very near impossible to guess. I was not logged in for days and I never open links of any kind, not even from people I know. I also run a Bluecoat AV and URL filtering appliance downstream from a squid proxy with the latest bad list and I only access the Internet via a Fedora LINUX workstation. This makes it damn near impossible to pick up any kind of malware whatsoever. And yet, my yahoo email was still used to send spam.

That tells me, that the problem is on Yahoo's server side. There have been many reports of this issue since early January. And even though Yahoo claims it is fixed, it obviously isn't.

Mike