So my Hotmail account is acting fishy... : Othor Games

» Tue May 03, 2011 7:41 pm

My brother texted me this morning asking if I had sent him an e-mail virus. I didn't, obviously, because it was sent from my hotmail account which I only use for signing up to forums and things like twitter. I can get into my account, and it did send the e-mail to everyone on my contacts list. Do I just need to change my password or is my e-mail forever screwed?

» Tue May 03, 2011 7:41 pm

Heh, same thing happened today. My friends and my mum received a no subject email from me on hotmail. I received the same thing from other hotmail accounts.

» Tue May 03, 2011 5:14 pm

Heh, same thing happened today. My friends and my mum received a no subject email from me on hotmail. I received the same thing from other hotmail accounts.

And it had some .ru address in it?

» Tue May 03, 2011 1:51 pm

I didn't open the emails, but they were all from my contacts.

» Tue May 03, 2011 7:24 pm

My brother texted me this morning asking if I had sent him an e-mail virus. I didn't, obviously, because it was sent from my hotmail account which I only use for signing up to forums and things like twitter. I can get into my account, and it did send the e-mail to everyone on my contacts list. Do I just need to change my password or is my e-mail forever screwed?

I had a more than one friend who had it happen to as well. After I told them they both changed their passwords and I haven't received any spam from them again. So it's worth a try and monitor it for a while.

» Tue May 03, 2011 6:45 pm

Following Umrahel's advice, I've changed my password. I should note this happens once every 2 weeks for me.

» Tue May 03, 2011 9:52 pm

What the hell... same thing happened to me today as well. I deleted the account and made a new one. So what's going on?

» Tue May 03, 2011 1:37 pm

This has happened to me, as well.
Congratulations! Someone has hacked your account and is using it to send spam.
This is the solution that worked for me: change everything. Immediately. Your password. Your secret question. Make sure they're things a bot wouldn't be able to puzzle out, and an actual person would have a hard time guessing.
Then, send an email to Hotmail and let them know what happened.
I'd suggest resetting the passwords to other sensitive information (PayPal, etc.), too, just in case. Better paranoid than a victim of identity theft, imo.

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:37 pm

I've changed the password, and it happened again a few mins ago. Although this time it was a delivery notification failure.

» Tue May 03, 2011 11:00 am

I've known this to happen to a bunch of people with Hotmail accounts in the last few weeks/a month. Something's up with Hotmail's system.

» Tue May 03, 2011 11:21 am

Hotmail.com is common email host. Spammed messages from "your" account does not always mean that your account has been hacked. Many spammers will spoof the addresses of hotmail accounts (randomly). Email server don't always verify complete accuracy of the sender. Gmail has an option to determine where the spoofed messsage originated.

DO NOT open and/or reply to the messages. Simply delete the messages and I recommend doing a malware scan, in case you have a keylogger or similar.

» Tue May 03, 2011 11:20 pm

It isn't just Hotmail, my cousin sent me an e-mail last night that I must have a virus, as I sent him a spam message. I received a Mailer daemon saying my message couldn't be sent to the following addresses, but in my sent folder, I didn't send anything. (And I didn't send anything out) So I'm wondering if it can be done through others in my address book, as I have 2 friends that I get random spam messages from, and they are always links to ? different crap. ( I have yahoo by the way)

» Tue May 03, 2011 11:21 pm

It isn't just Hotmail, ........... ( I have yahoo by the way)

It happened to me on my Yahoo account. Twice I noticed spam emails (they were sent to my other email accounts as they were in my Yahoo contacts list). Changing the password solved the problem and I have not had trouble with it again.

» Tue May 03, 2011 1:06 pm

It happened to me on my Yahoo account. Twice I noticed spam emails (they were sent to my other email accounts as they were in my Yahoo contacts list). Changing the password solved the problem and I have not had trouble with it again.

I just changed mine, again. I had changed it the last time, also. Stoopid people who have nothing better to do than cause grief. :meh:

» Tue May 03, 2011 7:05 pm

Same thing happened to me today, I got a tonne of Notification Failures but I noticed that they were from

something@mail.hotmail.com, instead of, something@hotmail.com, so I figured that it wasn't a bot, just some spam emails.

I'm pretty sure it has happened once before, right before all my email inbox got deleted, but i'm going to give Hotmail one more chance before I delete everything and start over.

» Tue May 03, 2011 9:33 am

My brother texted me this morning asking if I had sent him an e-mail virus. I didn't, obviously, because it was sent from my hotmail account which I only use for signing up to forums and things like twitter. I can get into my account, and it did send the e-mail to everyone on my contacts list. Do I just need to change my password or is my e-mail forever screwed?

Same thing happened to a gmail account that i only use to receive spam about 2 days ago.

» Tue May 03, 2011 11:04 am

*checks all 8 email addresses*

*finds no spam at all*

*sigh* you know, as crazy as it sounds, sometimes I think I'd like to recieve spam just once

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:30 am

Good god... most of you are infested. http://www.gifbin.com/bin/25yuswsw28295.gif

» Tue May 03, 2011 11:44 am

I was just about to make a topic about this as I've had this same problem. And yes it is a virus.

Just changed my password and it sent the virus to everyone again...

» Tue May 03, 2011 10:24 pm

*checks all 8 email addresses*

*finds no spam at all*

*sigh* you know, as crazy as it sounds, sometimes I think I'd like to recieve spam just once

poor defron, no one cares enough to send you spam :sadvaultboy:

» Tue May 03, 2011 5:00 pm

I was just about to make a topic about this as I've had this same problem. And yes it is a virus.

It is most definitely not a virus in my case.

This was an account that I only access online via gmail.com, so no outlook or pop access to this account, and no way my computer could have sent the emails remotely.

When I looked in my gmail sent box, the messages were there. Some [censored] piece of [censored] marketer hacked into that gmail account and used it to send emails to everyone in my contact list (fortunately there were not too many contacts since I dont use that account) telling them to buy an iPhone4 from some lame website called dodo.com or dudo.com or something like that.

» Tue May 03, 2011 1:47 pm

Had this problem, too. Hotmail suspended my account because of it, then I had to re-activate it by having them send me a code via text message. Changed my password and it never happened again.

Still pretty annoying considering some of the crap sent out were links to Viagra and Cialis wholesalers. :facepalm: some of that stuff went out to girls .

» Tue May 03, 2011 10:38 pm

my ex-gf responded to one of the spams, thinking it was a real email. (English is not her first language.)

She even forwarded it around thinking I needed help to sell an iphone or something. :facepalm: :facepalm:

» Tue May 03, 2011 11:48 am

I got it two, except mine was a link to a Canadian pharmacy selling Viagra.

» Wed May 04, 2011 12:30 am

Ah you could have had "so my hotmail account is acting phishy" nevermind

I had it too. Password change fixes it. Doesn't stop me receiving them from people who are still infected though, just stops me from sending them.