msn live account compromised

Pound

pimento wrote: »

They were probably sent to 5 million other people too.

It's much more likely that either the OPs MSN account or computer was compromised. Otherwise the OP would have 5 million replies from people in his inbox.

Mally_england

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Did it say:

Hey
How are you these days? I bought one white apple iphone 3gs from this website www.noisyt. com to my surprise,it's genuine , much cheaper.You can c heck it,Hope everything well.
Kind Regards；


If so it's a symptom of Hotmail account hijacks. See: http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/safety/archive/2009/04/29/recent-reports-of-account-hijacks.aspx

yes virtually identical.
Thanks for the info.
Mally

pimento

Pound wrote: »

It's much more likely that either the OPs MSN account or computer was compromised. Otherwise the OP would have 5 million replies from people in his inbox.

Not necessarily. I don't reply to spam from addresses I don't know. The only people to have replied were the contacts, who, on seeing who the sender was, smelt a rat. The majority of recipients would have filed under 'r' and blocked.

ChrisCobra

Dear Account User,

We encountered a problem with our database and a lot of records were lost, we are restoring our database to enable us serve you better. Your Windows Live! Account details are required so as to store in our database to keep your account active. Failure to do this will lose his or her account permanently.
To update and enable us restore your account details in our data base to keep your account active, you are required to provide us the details below urgently. Click the reply button to enter details below.




Name: ……………………..
Username: ……………………..
Password: …………………….
Date of Birth: …………………
Country or Territory: …………
Make sure the details above are correct to enable us restore your account details, this will help prevent your account from been suspended.

Note:
YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED.
Users have often told us that the more they use Windows Live! Service, the more they discover its benefits. We'll keep working on making Windows Live! the best email service around, and we appreciate your joining us for the ride.

Sincerely,
Windows Live Alert Team
Microsoft Corporation




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Had this today from destinygirl27@hotmail.com , haha sure i'll fall for that!

Mally_england

ChrisCobra wrote: »

Dear Account User,

We encountered a problem with our database and a lot of records were lost, we are restoring our database to enable us serve you better. Your Windows Live! Account details are required so as to store in our database to keep your account active. Failure to do this will lose his or her account permanently.
To update and enable us restore your account details in our data base to keep your account active, you are required to provide us the details below urgently. Click the reply button to enter details below.




Name: ……………………..
Username: ……………………..
Password: …………………….
Date of Birth: …………………
Country or Territory: …………
Make sure the details above are correct to enable us restore your account details, this will help prevent your account from been suspended.

Note:
YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED.
Users have often told us that the more they use Windows Live! Service, the more they discover its benefits. We'll keep working on making Windows Live! the best email service around, and we appreciate your joining us for the ride.

Sincerely,
Windows Live Alert Team
Microsoft Corporation




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Had this today from destinygirl27@hotmail.com , haha sure i'll fall for that!

I would'ent have fallen for that neither, You can see the mistakes as soon as you look at it.

gaming_guy

Mally_england wrote: »

I have the latest Mcafee security installed

its next to useless from my experiences of it. you can get free stuff that does a better job.

PS. it might be worth going into the techie board and trying some of the guides on how to remove malware as you might have a keylogger (or other malware) on the machine.

Mally_england

gaming_guy wrote: »

its next to useless from my experiences of it. you can get free stuff that does a better job.

PS. it might be worth going into the techie board and trying some of the guides on how to remove malware as you might have a keylogger (or other malware) on the machine.

Thanks, i'll do that.
I have gone in to my settings and they had been changed.
The junk mail setting was "exclusive" which means unless the sender is in my contacts list (Which had been deleted?) then all mailings would go to junk folder and the setting for time saved in junk folder was set at "Delete immediatly".
Changed various settings and sent myself an email and recieved it thanks guys
I have now changed settings, password, added secret question, and reported it to msn.
Will now look to find something to check my comp out for malware.
Again thanks to all for your help.
Mally:beer:

fishingcinema

I had this happen to me just before christmas,
so scamming spammer sent to all my address book about cheap electrical items,
also set me to away on holiday with an automated reply linked to a wensite and a different email address to reply to so i was not getting any emails :0(

LeeSouthEast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8291268.stm ?

GemJar_2

These malware, if complex enough can go undetected on 'normal mode' i got something called 'super anti spyware'(its free) a few weeks ago for my housemates comp, started in safe mode and ran a full search that way, it found a lot more than on previous searches and fixed his comp- this might be your best bet to make sure its gone.