Steviekid Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 A couple of weeks ago, everyone in my hotmail address book received an e-mail from my account that was basically a link to a website selling viagra etc! There was nothing in my sent folder and I'm certain it wasn't one of my mates so this made me a bit worried. The link seems to be a legitimate pharmaceutical website rather than just a porn link and I have honestely never been on such a site in my life! It happened again this morning so now I'm really pissed off. There hasn't been any other suspicious stuff, and I can always log in fine. I really don't want to have to cancel my account and get a new e-mail but is there anything else I can do? I'm going to start by deleting all the entries in my address book and save them in a word doc to see if that stops it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveR Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 ...I have honestely never been on such a site in my life! That's what they all say...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Have you changed your password? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviekid Posted March 14, 2010 Author Share Posted March 14, 2010 Have you changed your password? I've just changed it this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraShaun Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 I had this the other week, but the email linked to some trading site. They had deleted the emails from my sent folder but not from my "deleted" folder. I only found out this was happening because I had a load of failed email reciepts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnwd Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 if its some spamming virus wont matter if you change the password as it will still be on the system and will just record the password next time its entered and keep emailing out , just find it and kill it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I thought that all hotmail accounts are really easy to hack..?? I only use mine for trivial stuff. H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I've had an email from someone I've not heard of in years that linked to a blog site that then jumped to a Canadian company offering medical products. It shouldn't do any harm as I'm on Linux but I'll be running a virus check just to make sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I've had loads of these from friends, seems that a lot of accounts have been hacked recently, change your password often! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leelbuk Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 How do you access your hotmail account? Do you just use the hotmail website or have you got Outlook or some other mail client configured to do it? If so, viruses/malware can use mail clients to send mail on your behalf. Even if not, it may not actually be you that the email came from. It's pretty easy for anyone to send an email that looks like it came from you. Does seem very unlikely someone has hacked your hotmail account. If they knew your password then they'd lose access again as soon as you changed your password. EDIT: just saw edd_t's post and looked on google - seems like hotmail was heavily targetted in phishing scams last year - maybe thats happenned again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Seen quite a few of these going around lately from hotmail accounts. As mentioned above what are your point of access from mainly one home computer & one work? Or several? You have done the right thing by removing contacts list & for changing password. You need to run a virus check on all the machines you use including a malware scan (most AV software should be able to do this). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviekid Posted March 15, 2010 Author Share Posted March 15, 2010 Thanks for the replies guys. I access hotmail via the website and through live messenger at various computers - home, laptop and at work. I don't have any anti-virus as I prefer to do a full hard drive format and windows reinstall every so often to clean out all the crap. Sounds like I should do that shortly again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martini Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I thought that all hotmail accounts are really easy to hack..?? I only use mine for trivial stuff. H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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