Why is Yahoo doing this?

Question

I have my homepage set to www.yahoo.com

Today, all of a sudden, when I open up my browser, Windows has a popup come up that says yahoo requires me to enter a username and password to access the site. I tried using my yahoo id and password....didn't work. Then I tried just hitting "Cancel" in the popup and when I did that, it took me to a blank purple-ish color page that says the following:

401 Unauthorized

Authorization required for the URL '/'.

This is happening on both my laptop and desktop computers. However the funny thing is, when I use the yahoo toolbar drop-down menu, it allows me to go to all the yahoo sub-sites (yahoo mail, yahoo answers, etc.).

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening to me? Thanks.

Answer 1

I think ur computer has some promblems but mine can exist ... You  can try to shut down all ur computer and don't use the computer for abt 1 day and if the yahoo page still can't work then u may ask some computers : "pro" to help you repair but nw u can used already right?

Answer 2

they did it to me today!!!!

they deleted your account...

Answer 3

That could of been someone stealing your account and thats a way of getting your password,when I have something pop up and ask for my name and password I click it off and go to the site myself,Have had tomany people have there accounts taken doing that.

Answer 4

Go to www.yahoo.com, log in and reset your homepage again.  That may help.

Answer 5

sounds like your browser settings are  off reset youre browser

you can try this may work.