Hotmail hijack?
I keep a hotmail account around for various reasons - essentially any junky type mail where it wouldn't matter a great deal if the account was harvested. I find that this works ok, so that my principal email accounts are relatively spam free.
However, I just went in to the client, OE6 and looked in the sent folder & there are emails from me to people not in my address book, flogging Chinese fake designer gear.
So it would seem that someone has got hold of my account & is using it to send spam.
Can I stop this? I obviously don't want the problem. I've scanned with avast & windows defender and although I realise that isn't a comprehensive thing, it finds nothing nasty on the system. It's not the end of the world, just something I've not seen before & would rather not have.