Hotmail Hack SPAM - sent folder empty though ?

garywork

garywork

garywork

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Hi

looks like something has gone thru my contact list (i dont think all though) and sent a one liner out

sent folder empty though

KAS scan ok and malware bytes ok as well - uptodate IE and Firefox

q) could this be myself looking at a rogue email or would looking at a website on a seperate tab been able to read a contact list if i was in hotmail at the time ?


after being in IT forever , not had this before - in OE had to change an email address once when i recieved 180+ emails a day - nice !


any ideas welcome

oh , it happened a few days ago but nothing since - changed my email password since - when i tried to log in MS had blocked my account due to spam . . . after they sent a code to my other address I was in and ok
 
Hi

i use firefox for almost everything including Hotmail

no dodgy software

is chrome better for email security than firefox or opera

activex should only work in ie ?

also , only one of my hotmail accounts has this issue
 
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garywork said:
sent folder empty though
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Some of these spammers are smart and clear out the sent messages folder so you don't think anything has happened (my yahoo account got compromised a while ago and I only knew it had happened after I saw several failed message sending messages in my inbox (because the IP address of the spammer wasn't trusted by certain providers and a few others no longer existed) and that the sent message folder had been completely cleared out (which really got me hopping mad since all my e-mail job applications and some other messages were in there and got cleared out as well).

Also do you use the same password for your hotmail account anywhere else since one of those sites might've been compromised to send that data to malicious parties (the login ID must be the hotmail address) I would also suggest changing the password so they can't get back in.
 
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