If my home pc is infected with a virus, possible conficker, can someone also take over my yahoo email?

Will changing my password help?
If my home pc is infected with a virus, possible conficker, can someone also take over my yahoo email?
conficker uses a computer to send spam or to attack other computers. it doesn't spy on you. you can learn more about conficker infection at http://www.spywarevoid.com/confickere-wo...
Reply:if you believe that you have a virus, then i would avoid using that computer to access anything that requires you to enter a password or any other personal information. Chances are you don't have conficker. But you may well have a keylogger bot installed on your computer. I would download AVG free and run it. Also if you have Norton or McAfee, there's no wonder you have a virus. Those AV suites are useless.
Reply:go into safemode with networking by booting up or rebooting your machine and tapping the F8 key at the same time then choose safemode with networking go to safety.live.com that is microsoft's online scanner there are three scans available use all three this will remove virus/malware/spyware and clean your registry and tell you if you need to defragment your machine.
Reply:as far as i know conficker virus doesnt do anything harmful for now.


though yes it can CONTROL EVERYTHING in your computer it can boot it up alone. make you u have an anti virus and get it updated to be secured
Reply:No, but if the virus had a keylogger then maybe it can send to its appropriate master and can stole your password. normally no virus yet can take over your yahoo email.. its to futuristic..
Reply:change the password,they cant possibly know your cats name or whatever secret question you used.there answers seem useless to me





had an account hacked years ago and enter my secret question.hacked name was back again.
Reply:yes someone can take over yahoo mail,





and no changing the password will not help because they will just hack into the system by passing the password
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