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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 1045364" data-attributes="member: 530">Forgot to mention that you did the right thing.  Never open stuff sent to you via email attachment unless you know exactly what it is (viruses can disguise themselves as coming from your friends so knowing who it's from is not enough).  Yahoo mail won't send out information like that, ever.  They'll include info in the body of their message, and if you need to update your account it will be done through their web site, not something you download and run.  Similarly never give out account information to anyone posing as an administrator of Paypal, eBay, etc.  If it really is them, they know your account info and don't need it from you.If you want to double check that you are clean and don't have a virus scanner, go to the registry at:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunIf you are infected with W32_Mimail.A there will be an entry similar to:VideoDriver=%WINDIR%\videodriver.exeIf you see that, get a removal tool, such as:<a href="http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.a@mm.removal.tool.html" target="_blank">http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.a@mm.removal.tool.html</a></blockquote>