Spurious E-Mails

jigsy_in_spain

My hotmail account keeps sending out spurious e-mails to everyone in my contact list :mad::mad: Does anyone know how to put a stop to this.
I have norton anti-virus installed.

Thanks in advance

spenderdave

There have been quite a few reported instances of this recently. I assume you are talking about HotMail webmail and all your contacts are stored remotely on the Hotmail servers.

Basically the spammers have managed to hack into your webmail account. The cure is to change your password, and make sure you use one which is not in the dictionary - one with mixed letters, numbers and punctuation marks etc are best. Won't stop the mails already sent out, but will stop them getting in again.

Even better of course, stop using Hotmail. It amazes me how many still use it when there are far better equivalents around these days such as GMail.

weegie.geek

There's the possibility that spyware/trojans/whatever on your PC handed the password directly to them. Give it a good scan with something a bit more reliable than norton.