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Question, calling all tekkies knowledgeable in adware/spamware

Betty Blue

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I have this terrible horrible nasty attached evilness in two of my hotmail accounts.
It sends emails as if from me to various contacts randomly, some kind of sales spamming site. The site changes regularly and it's in China. I have tried to contact them many times through emails and their supposed chat window but surprise surprise no joy there.
Is there anything i can do to get rid without changing/deleting my accounts and staring up afresh?
Can i report it, will that take forever?

Thank e
 
Andy

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GemPOPGem said:
I have this terrible horrible nasty attached evilness in two of my hotmail accounts.
It sends emails as if from me to various contacts randomly, some kind of sales spamming site. The site changes regularly and it's in China. I have tried to contact them many times through emails and their supposed chat window but surprise surprise no joy there.
Is there anything i can do to get rid without changing/deleting my accounts and staring up afresh?
Can i report it, will that take forever?

Thank e
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Have you tride simply changing the account password? Sounds too easy, I know, but give it a shot.
 
ajblaise

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Sounds like your accounts were phished, what you can do is change your passwords and your security questions.

That might take care of the problem, but you can also make sure there aren't any keyloggers or spy software tracking you, you can download KeyScrambler. And if you want to do a system scan just to get crap off your PC you can get Malwarebytes. Both are free.
 
Betty Blue

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Andy said:
Have you tride simply changing the account password? Sounds too easy, I know, but give it a shot.
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ajblaise said:
Sounds like your accounts were phished, what you can do is change your passwords and your security questions.

That might take care of the problem, but you can also make sure there aren't any keyloggers or spy software tracking you, you can download KeyScrambler. And if you want to do a system scan just to get crap off your PC you can get Malwarebytes. Both are free.
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Thanks for your info & recommendations, now implemented,
heres hoping....
Thank you both very much.
 
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