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Virus in hotmail email?
| geek_hkm11 |
March 10, 2010, 6:41 pm |
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#1 | Can anyone give me advice on my hotmail email account? I dont know much about computers but I think it has a virus. People in my contacts list have been getting emails from me advertising iphones but I havent been sending them! The email also gets sent to my in box from me (if that makes sense).
I deleted all my contacts list hoping that would stop it sending to people. I now have another email from 'me' advertising a fashion website.
Any tips on how to remove this virus from hotmail would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! | |
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| geek_0800xford |
March 10, 2010, 6:42 pm |
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#2 | | sounds like your email address has been "spoofed" |
| geek_lukn4bargans |
March 10, 2010, 6:48 pm |
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#3 | | Change the password quicksmart. |
| geek_ferita |
March 10, 2010, 7:52 pm |
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#4 | | Download a squared free from www.emsisoft.com boot into safemode and run it. After it has run then change your passwords |
| geek_jp.r |
March 10, 2010, 8:44 pm |
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#5 | I had something very similar from a website called forat.com or something like that, I use Windows Live Mail with hotmail and when I googled the wesite etc I found that it was not a spoof but was something that I'd somehow picked up on the net, it seemed that virus scanners typically didn't pick it up... . To solve it, I quickly changed my password along with other passwords for the likes of paypal that could be reset through my homtail account. The I rebuilt my PC, I use Windows 7 and store all data on another PC so it was easy and only took 40 min or so.
I was really surprised at the number of people who thought that it was a legit site so it might pay to send an email warning your contacts (or at least your friends/family! ! ) | |
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