Does this just mean that my email address has been hacked or is there a virus on my PC? And what should I do about it?
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Your email could be hacked or it could be some botnet's set your email address as a return address.
Do a full virus scan then run hijackthis and post the log here or at a dedicated hijackthis board. -
It seems to have emailed addresses from my address book, so I assume my email address must be hacked rather than the botnet thing... What's hijackthis?Comment
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If they're coming from your address book, you're probably infected.
Hijackthis is basically a program that lists any programs and add ons that are run from the most common malware locations, it's very handy for identifying and removing stuff that anti-virus software misses.Comment
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It is a hotmail account if that makes any difference, I'm still hoping it's just my email account I have to worry about...Comment
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I have that and just about everyone on my hotmail contacts too. It's a just a bot using you as a return address.Comment
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Well, it is probably using your address book to send spam to your friends too. Not sure how that works.Comment
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Well, I changed my password, hopefully that'll keep them out!Comment
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Yeah, it's happened to my mother and myself in the last couple of months. We both changed our Hotmail passwords and anything forum wise that used the same email/password combo, and nothing has come of it since, touch wood...Lie with passion and be forever damned...Comment
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If it was secure, it isn't after you put it into that site
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Put in bigboobies2345 and it said 76 thousand years to crack!Comment
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