MSN password hackers

[Lima]

Hi,

Recently my MSN hotmail account was hacked. It was then used by some sort of bot to send out those stupid spam/virus link emails to loads of my contacts. Has this happened to anyone else on here? I think all is OK (hopefully) now as MSN blocked the account and I was asked to issue a phone number they could send a text message code to, to verify my account. I then put this code in the login screen and it allowed me to reset my password.

I'm aware that this is a common issue as its happened to friends of mine that i've received spam emails from in the past.

What I'm curious about is how they (person/bot) obtained my password? I'm pretty sure everything I download is safe. About a few weeks ago when i was on a TV streaming website (notorious with pop-ups) i got a warning from my antivirus that it detected some trojan hiden in my temporary internet files. I instantly quarantined it then deleted it. Could this still be the cause?

I use my PC to login to loads of things including bank accounts and an online poker site and would like to be confident that I haven't got a keylogger virus or something on my computer.

My computer protection is:

Antivir virus protection
Spybot Search and Destroy
Windows firewall

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Lima]

My password wasnt very complicated. Just a 1 word no number password. I dont use the exact same password on anything else, but i do use a slightly more complicated version as my main password on most of my logins.

 

[Lima]

To clarify - I checked my sent folder and saw the spam emails and who they were sent to in the sent folder. Not sure if this helps establish if it was ghosted or actually hacked.