I want to get rid of Hotmail

Jimz · 5 Jul 2011 at 11:40

With my advice, it fixes the problem. Thats what were trying to do here and it works.

div0 · 5 Jul 2011 at 11:45

Jimz said:
With my advice, it fixes the problem. Thats what were trying to do here and it works.

The point they are trying to make is that your suggested fix, of changing the password, will only work if the cause of the problem is that someone (or something) knows his password and is using it to send the emails.

It is entirely possible that this sort of problem can occur because the emails are made to look like they are being sent from his address, but are in fact being sent from a completely different email account. In this case, it's just bad luck and there's not much you can do about it.

The advice really should have been that changing his password would do no harm, and might resolve the problem. Asking him to check his Sent folder, helps to confirm if the emails were sent from his account and would then confirm that his password had been compromised.

Fegruson · 5 Jul 2011 at 11:49

div0 said:
The point they are trying to make is that your suggested fix, of changing the password, will only work if the cause of the problem is that someone (or something) knows his password and is using it to send the emails.

It is entirely possible that this sort of problem can occur because the emails are made to look like they are being sent from his address, but are in fact being sent from a completely different email account. In this case, it's just bad luck and there's not much you can do about it.

The advice really should have been that changing his password would do no harm, and might resolve the problem. Asking him to check his Sent folder, helps to confirm if the emails were sent from his account and would then confirm that his password had been compromised.

This has already been given, and OP has responded with the email that was sent to all of his contacts.

Amp34 · 5 Jul 2011 at 11:49

How do you know it's worked? Normally it doesn't due to the way it's sent...

OP have you checked to see if if there are messages in your sent folder!? It's the quickest way to check if changing your password will make any difference...

Also maybe see if the header shows you who originally sent the emails (ip address), probably will only show the reply ip though.

Haggisman · 5 Jul 2011 at 11:53

Anyone up for spoofing some emails from Jimz' hotmail? =P

[TW]Sponge · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:12

Amp34 said:
How do you know it's worked? Normally it doesn't due to the way it's sent...

OP have you checked to see if if there are messages in your sent folder!? It's the quickest way to check if changing your password will make any difference...

Also maybe see if the header shows you who originally sent the emails (ip address), probably will only show the reply ip though.

Yeah there were thousands of sent items, I posted one of the messages in a post above.

Scougar · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:17

My wife has this crap 'sent' from her account. It isn't sent at all, it's just spoofed the sender, even if it has your contact list.

If her hotmail password had been compromised then I'm sure a lot of things would have happened alongside her account being compromised.

There is nothing wrong with hotmail OP.

However, changing your password will do no harm.

div0 · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:17

Fegruson said:
This has already been given

I know, I gave it

Fegruson said:
and OP has responded with the email that was sent to all of his contacts.

I was unclear if the message was from his Sent items, or just a copy of what his friends had received.

Anyway the OP has now made it clear that they were all in his Sent items and so a change of password will do the trick.

[TW]Sponge · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:19

Scougar said:
My wife has this crap 'sent' from her account. It isn't sent at all, it's just spoofed the sender, even if it has your contact list.

If her hotmail password had been compromised then I'm sure a lot of things would have happened alongside her account being compromised.

There is nothing wrong with hotmail OP.

The messages have been sent. Freefaller and S.P.W have both received crap from me.

Anyway password has been changed so hopefully it will do the trick.

div0 · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:22

Scougar said:
My wife has this crap 'sent' from her account. It isn't sent at all, it's just spoofed the sender, even if it has your contact list.

If her hotmail password had been compromised then I'm sure a lot of things would have happened alongside her account being compromised.

The OP has just confirmed the emails were sent from his account and so his password was compromised in this case.

Scougar said:
There is nothing wrong with hotmail OP.

Agreed, as the same can happen with any email account. I do much prefer Gmail over Hotmail, but I actually had my Gmail password compromised recently.

Gmail allows you to check the recent list of IP addresses used to access your account - which made it clear that my account had been logged in from somewhere it shouldn't have. Gmail also has an Android Authenticator App, which means that you need an additional code, along with the normal password, to log into your account on a new PC.