Twitter account hacked?

[Ash-Lee]

I woke up to find my g/f's Twitter account was sending spam.

"Stay at home moms earn $550p/w" etc with links to click.

She logged on to her account via the website and it does indeed show she has sent these messages. I'm assuming that someone/something has got her password.

Does this mean there is a good chance of bugs on her laptop? Strangely enough i was going to format and do a complete re-install this weekend because she was complaining it was running slowly and i thought after years of abuse it might just be better to have a clean install.

I keep an eye on her machine (admittedly not as well as i do with mine) so i thought she would be reasonably secure. She runs,

Windows Vista Home Basic (pre-installed).
Microsoft Security Essentials.
Everything gets updated as and when the pop-ups appear.

My main concern is she does a lot of shopping online.

 

[awaybreaktoday]

She is stuffed, start changing everything....

 

[Uhtred]

doesn't always mean the machine is infected...could have been a kisok machine she logged into, computer at a college/work etc or just a very weak password (my ex had 'love' as her email password

As above, change all passwords...scan the machine with an online virus scanner to be safe

 

[knowlton]

I woke up to find my g/f's Twitter account was sending spam.

"Stay at home moms earn $550p/w" etc with links to click.

She logged on to her account via the website and it does indeed show she has sent these messages. I'm assuming that someone/something has got her password.

Does this mean there is a good chance of bugs on her laptop? Strangely enough i was going to format and do a complete re-install this weekend because she was complaining it was running slowly and i thought after years of abuse it might just be better to have a clean install.

I keep an eye on her machine (admittedly not as well as i do with mine) so i thought she would be reasonably secure. She runs,

Windows Vista Home Basic (pre-installed).
Microsoft Security Essentials.
Everything gets updated as and when the pop-ups appear.

My main concern is she does a lot of shopping online.

It's one of the netbots - the guy from click tweeted it earlier this morning.