> From: Perry Noid <nobody@home.com>

Do you own the domain name home.com? If not, you are doing a disservice
to the owner by using it and causing spam to be sent to it.

http://tekrider.net/general/misctips.php#mung

> should have been clearer about the problem....

Please do not begin threads by typing "re:" in the subject line.

> 2. when I try to read new email messages in my Yahoo accounts, I get
> into some loop looking for:
>
> js.worthathousandwords.com

Look at: http://worthathousandwords.com/
It's an ad serving company.

> 3. this only affects my Yahoo accounts, not my hotmail accounts

There is a good clue that it is a yahoo problem.

> 7. email that I send out from my Yahoo to my hotmail accounts display ok,
> but I notice that it seems to be searching for "something" for a long
> time!...

Add the following lines to your HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 worthathousandwords.com
127.0.0.1 js.worthathousandwords.com

> 8. my antivirus/spyware/adware programs are up to date as of today,
> and scans are negative.

Not relevant in this case.

> 9. I've nuked and restored my drive to a known good GHOST image 3
> times in the last hour or so, without any improvement

Huh? You nuked your hard drive because one web-based email system is
serving ads ok, and another web-based email system is not?

Where is the logic in that?

> my guess is that Yahoo has either made some sort of change that's
> causing the problem, or they have been hacked... Anybody else having
> problems with Yahoo?...

My guess is that yahoo's new ad server supplier is having a server
problem, and your browser is waiting for it.

Add the above-mentioned lines to your HOSTS file.
http://tekrider.net/general/wintip01.php#hosts

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