Hi, hope this question is not redundant since I'm new.

I recently got a new laptop and upgraded all Microsoft components (IE, Office, Windows XP) to their most recent versions.

And then something very disturbing happened.

I have a Yahoo! homepage. I upgraded to their "New! Improved!" homepage appearance, using Internet Explorer. (At the same time, I had Outlook open to check my school email.)

Within a day, I had received a message in my school email account from Yahoo, welcoming me to their "New! Improved!" homepage.

I have NEVER supplied Yahoo with that email address.

All I can figure is that somehow IE allowed Yahoo to harvest my email addresss from Outlook. Does that make sense?

If this is possible, how do I stop it? Can some setting be changed in IE or regedit?

Thanks!
Dulc