My hotmail is sending out e-mails

cit_k

There is no need to examine the headers if the emails are in your sent box, that alone is enough to know your account was responsible.

pollyskettle

I have a problem not dissimilar to this, only the email are not showing in my sent items. Most sent emails have bounced back to my hotmail inbox, but this message has been sent to my entire contact list in hotmail and no-one else iyswim.

I have changed my password - do I need to do anything else please?

poppy10_2

pollyskettle wrote: »

I have changed my password - do I need to do anything else please?

Check your computer for malware - they must have got your password from somewhere, most like a keylogger. No point in just changing your password if the baddies can just capture your new password next time you enter it.

Try MalwareBytes as a first step.

pollyskettle

Thanks - I'm downloading it now. I already run AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy and Adaware very regularly.

I no longer have a copy of the email to check as I deleted them all, but the message is definitely not in my hotmail sent items and never has been - is that not a bit weird?

macman

pollyskettle wrote: »

Thanks - I'm downloading it now. I already run AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy and Adaware very regularly.

I no longer have a copy of the email to check as I deleted them all, but the message is definitely not in my hotmail sent items and never has been - is that not a bit weird?

Not really, because then it's not been sent from your account, it's simply your address being spoofed by a spambot.
Any spam that it sends to invalid addresses will therefore be bounced back to your address.

pollyskettle

It's probably the lack of coffee this morning which is causing me thought issues, but if it isn't sent from my account why is it only being sent to the addresses in my hotmail contacts list and no-one else iyswim?

macman

Have you got your own spam filter set to only accept emails from your contacts? If so, all the other bouncebacks will go straight to your spam folder, or be deleted if that's how you've set it up.

pollyskettle

I've got nothing set up on my Hotmail account as I only use it once every couple of months or so. All my 'proper' email comes through to OE using my domain hosts redirection thingy (!), I only use hotmail for people/companies I'm not too fussed about hearing from again - I only have about a dozen contacts on there.

I think I could just close my Hotmail account - is that possible? I know the last two I had closed on their own as I didn't use them for so long!

marvin

Hotmail have a problem they will not admit to and that is that something is scanning their servers for open connections.

It is not a virus (or at least if it is it is one that works across several browsers and many accounts) as it has happened to me and there is little chance of any virus getting onto any of my pc's un-noticed.

The solution is 1 always use hotmail in a browser window on its own.
2.Always log out when done and then close the window used, this makes sure the connection is broken and that it does not remain open (try logging out then logging back into hotmail with the same window it should go straight back into the account.).

Change password and never store it on a cookie so do not tick the box for storing password.

Since following these rules have not had a problem and neither has anyone else that has followed them.