e-mail sent to everyone in my mailbox

cuffie

I have had an e-mail from "me" to everyone in my contacts saying to an ugg shop to get christmas presents. How can I stop this from happening again? It's gone to everyone!
Thanks x

penrhyn

Sounds like you have an infection.
Do a virus scan, also download and run Malwarebytes antimalware.

tdlwebs

I agree. Sounds like one of the all too common viruses. You need to scan your machine pronto.

-TangleFoot-

Is it a Hotmail address by any chance?

princess275

download malware bytes and AVG and do a thorough scan

Money_Grabber13579

Probably don't have a virus, but worth a scan just in case. It's more likely your account has been hijacked so change your password and security question.

garyjohn80

could be a hijacked account this is quite common especially if you are not careful with your details online. but my gut feeling is that this is a worm. A good virus scanner should pick this up. Please ensure your virus scanner is fully updated with the latest definitions. If you dont have antivirus software i would suggest a scan with avg free from download.com as some virus like problems will block websites original antivirus developers.

Tiffster

If this is on a hotmail account it's not a worm, loads of account details where hacked a while back.

I had it too, emails sent from my account to everyone in my address book saying buy PC equipment from this website etc etc... load of crap they even put it as my signature, couple of mates had the same thing happen to them.

A simple password change and security question change stopped it.

Ivrytwr3

yahoo too and some other providers were hacked.

ses6jwg

It happened to my Mum she closed her hotmail account and is now with Gmail

Money_Grabber13579

ses6jwg wrote: »

It happened to my Mum she closed her hotmail account and is now with Gmail

As mentioned, Google was hacked aswell. In all, the 3 main providers were all hacked (Hotmail, Google and Yahoo). It's possible other smaller providers were also hacked but those were the only ones that made the national news.