albert- My response was to your first post. Looking at what you subsequently wrote, I'd say that it may make sense based on whatever filtering and spam identification software Yahoo has in operation. Spam filtering is a complex and imperfect art, and that folder with many links could have looked suspicious based on whatever algorithms were at work. If you try to send the links in the folder like you did at first and it gets kicked back again, that would likely confirm that this approach won't work. However, if you can use something else, like gmail or Hotmail, it may get through.

Yahoo is not my usual account so I don't check it very often. I just clicked on the shortcut, and it brings me up to a Yahoo page asking me to "Upgrade" now. I chose the "No Thanks" and it just brought that same page back up several times. It did however finally take me to my Mail. When you reset the password, do they have to email it to another email address? Just curious. Sue

FYI.... A very short time ago, a friend of mine was a victim of this particular hack at Yahoo. I was listed in her contact list and all I can say is that this "nasty" is virulent. I don't use any Yahoo product and rarely, if ever visit their website. She is the only email friend I have that uses their email and even though we don't converse on a daily basis, just being one of her contacts made me a victim. I began to be barraged with unsavory mail...none of which I opened directly. But, no matter what protection I have on my system [and it's the best] I could not stop the onslaught. I suspect the reason being that I was not the addressee. The clever sender copied me rather than sending directly to my address. I tried every trick I knew to stop the mail...blocking IP #s, etc and nothing worked. My only recourse to stop the action was to delete my own email account entirely and begin a new. I'd had the account for sixteen years with nary a problem. Deleting it felt like loosing an old friend. Then I advised my friend to find another email program. Unfortunately, she didn't heed my advice and I expect she's been hit again. I insisted that she not put my new email address in her contact list so I may be safe this time around...but if not...the account I opened to continue conversing with her is what I consider a throw away account. I won't suffer if I have to close it quickly. Although...when I opened the new account to continue conversing with her...I made her promise not to list me as a contact anywhere on her system. I relate this experience for those of you...who like Jodi...are having difficulty resetting a password...and strongly suggest that you find new non-Yahoo email programs. As the unwitting recipient of my friends computer infection...I had to change all my accounts, etc and it's a task I wouldn't want to repeat. Anne

No Deb it isn't (apparently) any more. I didn't mean to give you the wrong idea. We used to have to watch ourselved very carefully with the previous Garden Web owners. (this exchange is owned by Village, as in the cinema chain - nothing is free on the net) I have tried to do exactly as you have done, and in the past it was not possible to even mention the "Y" word. You would be transferred to the Disney web site, and would find yourself removed from the GW forums indefinitely. Things have clearly improved in that area atleast, and it is good that we can be much more open here and share in new developments such as yours. The forums should be about sharing gardening information after all. There are very few Aus based forums or e-groups. I am one of the moderators of Austgardens, a similar group to yours, but for general gardening. It spends a lot of time in the doldrums unfortunately, where Garden Web seems to get much more traffic. Cheers, Jan