Zickar Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 My email is sending spam to all my contact list . The mails contain nothing but a link to healthworld.com ... Sometimes they use a URL shortener like Bit.ly and sometimes they are just straight in your face . I usually know about this from my friends or from the Delivery Notification Failure message . How do I fix this . I looked online and everybody says to scan the computer then change the password and that will fix it but my antivirus shows nothing . I'm using Microsoft Essentials and I always update it . And also one more thing bothers me is the Delivery Notification failure message .. Why do I get it since the emails that the message is sent to is actually valid . ? The last question was just out of curiousity . Thanks in advance for all the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusDarkus Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 I had the same issue about a month ago. I don't think it's the fault of your computer. I changed my password to something stupidly long and complex over a week ago and it stopped for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakem1 Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Yes, the same thing happened to me about a month ago too. I meant to do soemthing about it (like change my password as MarkusDarkus did) bit didn't get around to it. Fortunately the spamming stopped so I presumed MS did something at their end. Looks like I may have been wrong and should take action after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zickar Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 I had the same issue about a month ago. I don't think it's the fault of your computer. I changed my password to something stupidly long and complex over a week ago and it stopped for me. I changed my password into seomething long but not very compex (Because when it got complexI couldn't get the two password feilds to match .. Hehehe) .. I did that yesterday .. Does this usually take time to stop after you change the password ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelB51026 Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Sounds serious. I should change my hotmail password. It's too simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph B Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 It's not a virus. It's Malware. Hook yourself up with Malwarebytes. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ One scan, and I assure you, you will find something malicious, and probably your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost5525 Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Had the same thing happen with my account last week actually. Changed my password and it stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zickar Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 This (The Scan) probably should be done on all computers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusDarkus Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 All the computers you care about. However I scanned all my machines with MBAM, Spybot S&D, MSE, and a few root kit tools and they didn't find anything. I think its more a case of passwords being brute forced or harvested as I did many things to pin it down to a specific machine but it even happened when they were all off-line and I used it through the browser on my sisters computer for a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 It's not a virus. It's Malware. Hook yourself up with Malwarebytes. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ One scan, and I assure you, you will find something malicious, and probably your problem. did a scan and found 2 little bits in my registry thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zickar Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 Doing a scan with the free version of Malware Bytes .. Found 5 infections so far on the PC I often use to access my email . Hope the free version is good enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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