geek malware Q

[rootsnall]

Has anybody else been a victim of sending out the email below to their address list ( via hotmail account ), and then losing their address list. The freebie Avast virus s/w I'm running has done a good job for a few years but I guess may have missed the virus / malware. The problem looks fairly wide spread but I can't see a remedy or proper explanation via google. Another hotmail account using this same laptop looks fine. Is it possible they have hacked into hotmail itself rather than my account ? There is nothing in my Sent folder relating to the email and everything else on the laptop looks OK. I guess I should change my password as a bare minimum !?

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[suityou01]

Has anybody else been a victim of sending out the email below to their address list ( via hotmail account ), and then losing their address list. The freebie Avast virus s/w I'm running has done a good job for a few years but I guess may have missed the virus / malware. The problem looks fairly wide spread but I can't see a remedy or proper explanation via google. Another hotmail account using this same laptop looks fine. Is it possible they have hacked into hotmail itself rather than my account ? There is nothing in my Sent folder relating to the email and everything else on the laptop looks OK. I guess I should change my password as a bare minimum !?

********** don't click on the link !!!!!!!

hey,
how are you ?
Just received my iphone 3gs 32gb from this website. www.sdlpgift.com .much cheaper than others and genuine . if you would like to get one,you can check it out.
Happy new year
Regards

Try AVG. Also hotmail is web based so unless you have some weird BHO hijacking your browser I dunno how this happened unless hotmail has been compromised.

Also download Lavasoft Adaware and let that scan your system, as this does rootkits as well.

Best of luck.

[cojak]

Can you remember how you let it it???

[Incognito]

A lot of spam spoofs the sender address. A lot of the more intricate virii harvest e-mail addresses from compromised systems contact lists and then sends mail using its own smtp engine.

Download stinger and do a scan, but my bets would be it's spam. Get someone who's received the e-mail message to forward you the message header (how to extract from hotmail). You can see if it's spam from that as the reply to address will be different to the sender address (spoofed).

[Incognito]

A lot of the more intricate virii

This also leads onto the semantics of is it 'virii' or 'viruses', but that's a conversation to be had with a pedant.

[rootsnall]

A lot of spam spoofs the sender address. A lot of the more intricate virii harvest e-mail addresses from compromised systems contact lists and then sends mail using its own smtp engine.

Download stinger and do a scan, but my bets would be it's spam. Get someone who's received the e-mail message to forward you the message header (how to extract from hotmail). You can see if it's spam from that as the reply to address will be different to the sender address (spoofed).

Ta for the various replies. I'll try things once I've done kids bath duty.

I would suspect 'spoof' but it is the fact my address book is now blank that has me thinking it is more than that ?!?!?!?

[suityou01]

This also leads onto the semantics of is it 'virii' or 'viruses', but that's a conversation to be had with a pedant.

SasGuru will be along shortly, please hold the line.

[shaunbhoy]

I would suspect 'spoof' but it is the fact my address book is now blank that has me thinking it is more than that ?!?!?!?

Good Lord! You haven't perchance logged in as sasguru have you?

[Incognito]

SasGuru will be along shortly, please hold the line.

I said pedant, not peasant

[Platypus]

Try AVG.

AVG let me down a couple of months ago


I'm now trying Avast.