ebinformatique.net, emailing my contacts

hermum

Hopefully someone can help, I keep getting emails from the above address, sent from my email address & to all my contacts.
I've just looked it up without clicking on the link in the emails & it's a page telling you about getting paid to surf.
I don't know how to stop these emails & more importantly how they have all my contacts on 2 email addresses.
I do everything online, so my security has likely been compromised.
Any advice on what to do appreciated.

Browntoa

it could be one of your friends address books that has been compromised , not yours

to be sure download this

http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

install and update , then do a full scan

remove ALL it finds and then post the log file it produces back here for us to check

hermum

Browntoa wrote: »

it could be one of your friends address books that has been compromised , not yours

to be sure download this

http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

install and update , then do a full scan

remove ALL it finds and then post the log file it produces back here for us to check

Thank you, I'm scanning at the moment, will post back when it finishes, I thought that it would take a few minutes over an hour so far.

hermum

Hi, finished scanning,removed what is suggested, do I cut & paste the whole log or the link please?
I'm not very tech minded.
I think that it must be my computer as it's only going to my few contacts.

hermum

Bump, could someone say whether I cut & paste the whole log please or the link.
I've just had an email supposedly from me with a link to a foreign site,
Thank you

the182guy

Also download, update and run Spybot which is a very good free anti spyware tool:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

After removing any detected threats, change all your passwords

Copy and paste the Malwarebytes log here if you want.

If you haven't got a dedicated antivirus - get one, either AVG or Microsoft Security Essentials.

Check the Windows Firewall is turned on.