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Hotmail sent random spam to contacts
selobthegod
Member Posts: 155
I could really use some help over here! Some hours ago one of my contacts told me he got an email from me .. I was like wtf i didn't send anything . Then he gave me a screenshot of the mail , it was rly sent from me , then i checked my "sent mails" and found out that there were like 10 mails sent from me (which i didn't send!). They mails had no subject and inside u can only see some random name and next to it a random number , then .co.cc. I ran a scan with my antivirus avast and found nothing so i changed my password and secret answer . Haven't send an other message since , it was the first time btw. Should i do anything else? I'm rly scared cause most of my accounts are linked with that email
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You might have a keylogger running on your system. If so changing your password and such wont do anything for you until the keylogger is removed. Use Spybot Search & Destroy and Malwarebytes. See if they report anything. If they do, anything you logged into may have it's password compromised.
This is also a good reason to have several email addresses for different accounts. Use one for suspect, or even new, websites as a spam collector. Use others for personal and game accounts.
Ran malware bytes , found nothing , gonna run spybot and edit back thx for responding m8
EDIT: Spybot found some crap , used "fix problems" option and now im checking once again..hope these are just ads stuff they were only "browser entries"
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Those aren't the only malware detection programs around but they are the most popular.
I tried Hotmail recently after several years of ignoring them. Within a couple of hours of creating the email address and not even using it I received a political diatribe in a language I don't speak. Hotmail reuses email addresses that have gone dead and I had used the same /random/ letters and numbers email address as someone else previously had. I deleted that account and won't be going back to Hotmail.
there only 2 thingies on spybot now one is Right Media and the other one is Doubleclick , but i doubt anythign has to do with hotmail thingie , anyways do u know any way to remove these 2?
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Both of those provide advertising media to websites. They are probably just cookies registered in your web browser. Those you can delete yourself but they'll be back as soon as you go to a site the uses them. A suggestion for that is to do some reading about creating a 'hosts' file and add their websites to it and redirecting their sites to 127.0.0.1. Doing that will cause your computer to look for those sites on itself and will thus cause attempts to access them to fail. 127.0.0.1 is one 'name' your computer knows it's self as.
But that is a different issue than malware.
Someone else might also offer suggestions.
Well since they aren't affecting the security of my information and the well being of my computer i guess it's ok , guess some1 had my pass someway after all , i'v changed it and nothing has happened since , ill google about removing these 2 tho! thx for helping dude! I rly appreciate it
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