How to close a hotmail account?

Filan

can't figure out how to do so. Account has been infiltrated and advertisements/reservations etc being sent to people in my address book, need to close it, I'd appreciate assistance.
Thanks
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swirlser

Theres probably something nasty on your machine, so priority would be to download and fully virus scan your machine (AVG perhaps). After thats done, you may change your password if you wish....

As for actually closing the account, I dont know, call MS HQ and ask for Bill.

Filan

thanks,the same thing happened with hotmail before......and did close the account then,just can't figure how to do it now, Had AVG but it slowed down my system too much.:)

swirlser

Hmmm...

Only AV to have ever had a bad impact on my machines performance is Norton (That thing was a bigger pain than a virus o.O). Regardless of what AV I use, I generally leave it on default settings, update it weekly and run a deep scan over night once a week.

If whatever you choose is slowing down your machine, you should take the time to go thru its settings, Im sure you can identify what its doing to cause the slow downs (if it is indeed that) - maybe it was set to run daily scans for eg

Anyway, gl with that - do scan your machine tho, probably no harm to get another malware killer (spyboy/search&destroy). Same thing, update it once a week and run it when you go out or overnight - weekly.

monkeypants

Try this and let us know how you get on.

Keano

Simpliest solution. Log into to your account, delete all your contacts and all mails.