Help Needed - Email address hijacked

gwenuska wrote: »

Hi
Some Chinese company seems to be sending emails from my hotmail account using my email address to everyone in my contacts list. Is there anything I can do without having to close my account and open another one.:mad:

First thing i'd do is change my password and security questions

hire japanese assasins to take them out...that usually works for most situations..

i don't know if that caused it .. there appears to be some debate as to what is causing this

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139098/Researcher_refutes_Microsoft_s_account_of_hijacked_Hotmail_passwords?taxonomyId=82

re phone:

i have only recently started to check my hotmail from my phone ( not to send them mind you )

it is set to "remember me/log in automatically" on my phone , whereas on my PC i am always prompted to enter password before I access my hotmail account.

I was logged in to hotmail from my PC when the spam was sent.

first time I have ever been affected by something like this, perhaps I have become complacent over the years.

have strenghtened all my passwords since and performed a full onelive scan, full malwarebytes scan and also have Avast running and nothing has been picked up

change your password to a strong password . i.e. one that contains numbers upper case and lower case characters etc.

eg: your password is "jollyman" change it to "J0llym@n"

the exact same thing happened to me - apparently I was trying to sell everyone phones too. I never use the hotmail account, and do not have a contacts list - I figured out it was being sent to my list of instant MSN contacts (the only reason I created a hotmail account was to sign up to instant messaging). I re-installed that and everything has been ok since.