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Old 26th Apr 2010, 19:06
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My hotmail seems to be sending out spam with some link which i have not tried to open does that mean my laptop may be infected or is a problem with hotmail as have recieved from other people.I hardly use hotmail
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Old 26th Apr 2010, 19:32
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My hotmail seems to be sending out spam
- how do you know? Your hotmail address may well have been 'harvested' by some nasty person and is being used as the 'from' address.
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Old 26th Apr 2010, 19:46
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I've had something similar before. Have you tried changing your password? Thats how i solved mine.
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Old 28th Apr 2010, 21:42
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probably your pc is infected with malware. download spybot and malwarebytes, update them and run them. Make sure your antivirus is up to date. Like Norton IS 2010 or a respectable one.
I have seen this many times that you get emails from yourself with your email on the subject and it's something you never sent.
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Old 29th Apr 2010, 11:14
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jxc - if you are still around! Did you see my post #2? How do you know?
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