Was the outgoing message(s) in your Hotmail out box? If so, picking a
good password and changing it occasionally is probably the cure.
If not, it means that your address was spoofed, and there is no defense
against that other than possibly changing your e-mail frequently. It's
trivial to send mail with any address as "From:", although there are
plenty of things we're doing at the server level to try to cut down on
that traffic there's nothing that the putative sender can do. On the
other hand, the fact that the message did go to addresses you already
correspond with (such as this list) means there was a breach. Given the
way Hotmail works, that almost certainly means the breach was at Hotmail
and the password reset will take care of.
At least until the next time. I recommend very strong passwords for
anything related to e-mail. Like DB#^89dls, which includes symbols,
numerals, and upper and lower case letters.
Van
On 15/05/2011 3:52 PM, Deb Booth wrote:
>
>
> Hi there - I am writing to apologize for the no-subject, spam
> hyperlink email that got sent from my hotmail account to the group
> (and everyone in my contacts list) on Friday night. It was NOT from
> me... and oddly enough, I was sitting AT my computer when it happened.
> I looked up from printing notecards and saw I had 54 undeliverable
> mail notifications. I hadn't sent ANY email that evening, so I was
> more than a bit taken aback.
>
> And then I was angry and embarrassed. I changed my hotmail password
> immediately. The hack job came thru hotmail, NOT thru my computer, as
> my Norton antivirus is up to date, and my anti-mal-ware program was
> working and indicated no issues.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to avoid such issues in
> the future? IS there any way to avoid it, other than regularly
> changing one's password, and maintaining an up-to-date virus
> protection program?
>
> know it's happened to others on this forum, and I know it will happen
> again to some other unsuspecting, innocent soul - but you all have my
> sincere apologies for any inconvenience this instance may have caused you.
> Light and laughter,
> Deb Booth
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