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Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:32 am
by Arthur Grant
Haven't gotten Norton to clear clean the hack to my Hotmail account that has now sent out two spam e-mails. Any suggestions?
Re: Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:02 am
by Max Hayter
1. Change your Hotmail password.
2. My sister's Hotmail account was hacked last week... must be a Hotmail thing.
3. Hotmail sucks... switch to Gmail.
Re: Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:38 am
by Bob Pl
What Max said, you need to change the password to a STRONG password. Anti virus will not get solve this issue which is some %%$#$@@$%^&** has the password to your account.
It happened to my hotmail, but the strong password has fixed it for a year or two now.
Re: Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:14 am
by Jeff Shyu
Arthur Grant wrote:Haven't gotten Norton to clear clean the hack to my Hotmail account that has now sent out two spam e-mails. Any suggestions?
FWIW, norton isn't exactly the be-all-end-all on computer protection anymore.
you were most likely phished via clicking a link, which norton probably didn't catch.
at the minimum, download
adaware (it's free) and run it on ALL the computers you have used to access hotmail.
Re: Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:24 am
by Arthur Grant
Max Hayter wrote:1. Change your Hotmail password.
2. My sister's Hotmail account was hacked last week... must be a Hotmail thing.
3. Hotmail sucks... switch to Gmail.
yep, I have run a 360 scan and changed the password. I use g-mail for some things but it has a really lousy filing system.
Re: Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:41 am
by Pete Loney
Arthur Grant wrote:Max Hayter wrote:1. Change your Hotmail password.
2. My sister's Hotmail account was hacked last week... must be a Hotmail thing.
3. Hotmail sucks... switch to Gmail.
yep, I have run a 360 scan and changed the password. I use g-mail for some things but it has a really lousy filing system.
Who files, just search it.
Re: Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:33 am
by Max Hayter
Pete Loney wrote:
Who files, just search it.
In Gmail, I create labels like "Misc", "Follow Up", "Racing" and move emails to the appropriate folder if I want to keep them. Not sure how that differs from any other email system.
Re: Hotmail Hacked
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:15 pm
by KJ Christopher
Arthur Grant wrote:
yep, I have run a 360 scan and changed the password. I use g-mail for some things but it has a really lousy filing system.
Think of "labels" as "files". Worked awesomely once I realized that.