Hotmail account hijacked???
Hi. I am new to this forum and I hope someone can help me. I opened up my Hotmail account today and found 12 undeliverable messages to people on my contact list that contained spam from China. Someone has hijacked my Hotmail account (I think) and sent this to everyone on my list. At least 6 of my contacts opened the message and infected their own computer and contact lists. I know this because the same spam was sent back to me via one of their email addresses. My husband (a diehard PC user) insists that there is a worm on my computer that has caused this problem and believes that I probably got it from an infected email (I am extremely careful what I open. I do not take/use my MacBook outside of my home and we have firewalls installed on my computer and on our home network. I suspect my account was hijacked when (during a two day power outage) I accessed my hotmail account at the public library (I logged out of my account & cleaned the browser history).
Is it possible that I do indeed have a worm installed on my computer? Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know how to make it stop? I am concerned because it appears that I have transferred this mess to many, many people including hundreds of people on a contact list from my daughter's dance school. I have changed my hotmail password and security question but I am concerned that there may be something on my computer that could jeopardize the financial info on our network. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.
It is possible that the library computer was infected before you used it. It then sent your login info to the person who infected it. That person could then log into your account and send the virus to all your contacts. Now that you changed your password, your hotmail account should be safe.
I seriously doubt that your Mac is infected. OS X is very different from Windows... a Windows virus will not affect OS X and visa versa. Since Window is what 98% of computers run, that is what most viruses are made to infect.
The infecter might spoof your e-mail address (use your email address as the from address even though a different account is actually sending the email), but basically the damage has been done and there isn't much you can do about it.
To keep this from happening in the future you should only use computers or Wi-Fi networks that are known to be safe if you are doing anything online that requires a password.
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