View Full Version : hotmail emails , strange things happening!
mama2three
28-04-2010, 08:33 AM
just checked my emails to find a number of delivery failure notification s - for emails i never sent!
Looks like i have sent an email praising christmasgifts website to my whole contacts list - some of them are old ones hence the delivery failures.
so how do i find out / clean it up? I am the most computer illiterate person , this laptop is only a few weeks old and came all set up with antivirus etc ( through the capital grant)
Anyone who can give me an idiotproof way of sorting it would be a godsend!
Thanks x
its not to do with having a new laptop but looks like you have been hacked, need to go in and change your password RIGHT NOW....
This happened to me and a lot of my friends.
xx
mama2three
28-04-2010, 08:40 AM
Have changed my hotmail password.
Anything else now?. sorry !
dont be sorry, its :angry: when they do it...
not a lot really you can do other than maybe to warn people this has happened to let your contacts know it wasnt you.
xx
funfunfun
28-04-2010, 09:02 AM
also happened to me so changed passwords :)
id do that safer
mama2three
28-04-2010, 09:40 AM
thanks ladies.
So is it via my laptop that they have got in then? Or out in hotmail cyberspace?
What i mean is have i got a problem regarding my laptop security / firewall etc?
funfunfun
28-04-2010, 09:43 AM
im unsure about that
is there anyway any one could have got hold of yoru passwords
sounds like you have been hacked though
Mookins
28-04-2010, 10:11 AM
sounds like somebody has got to your email...not neccisarly(sp) via your laptop just through the whole cyber world ...had this a few weeks back big bro was getting emails from my email address I havent used in yonks about buying viagra!!:blush:
youve done the bext thing changijng your password
x x
HomefromHome
28-04-2010, 10:26 AM
these can be trojan viruses so be careful and never open the attachments!!!!! just mark as spam - these particular ones (mine were dhl supposedly) are when you open the attachment the viruses in downloaded. you can block the email address.
I had that a few months ago. It was a Chinese electrical company and they did it loads, even sending it to me, from me! I had a friend who is computer savvy look at it but he couldn't trace it to block them because it was sent from me! I changed my password and always sign out and it hasn't happened since. I also emailed everyone in my address book and warned them not to open any attachment in them. So annoying!:angry:
Bazza
28-04-2010, 05:13 PM
May i suggest that you also go in and change your secret questions as well becasue this is a backdoor for hackers when people change passwords.
Might be wise to change any online banking passwords/usernames etc also in case your PC has been scanned for the details.
no not ypour laptop but cyberspace.
Hotmail, like yahoo and gmail are all web based mail so can be accessed anywhere so doesn't need you pc/laptop etc to access it.
You did well to change your password and like someone else said change your security questions too.
FizzysFriends
28-04-2010, 06:54 PM
Passwords that are in the dictionary are easy to hack like this as they have bots that scan the dictionary until it finds your password.
Change your passwords and it will stop it happening.