hacked hotmail help,...

[Chris1]

ahhhh, glad i continued to read before clicking the link,....!!

Changing my password solved the problem, so no more slightly irritated friends wondering what my obsession with viagra is all about!

 

[Tikanderoga]

It doesn't have to be a key logger or a hacked account - as you don't have any email in your sent items, your email account was most likely just spoofed. In layman's terms:
Someone sent an email pretending to be you/your email address. Whatever bounces, comes to you.

The person got most likely never hold of your password - maybe just your email addy. Spoofing an email isn't that hard but the result for the spoofed one can be quite shocking.
How to prevent spoofing: You can't!
It's like saying: how can I stop a guy in russia or somewhere in the world from pretending to be Tikanderoga - you can't. All you can do is clean up the mess and move on.

 

[notechistiger]

Apologies to this person if you are legit, but beware of clicking on this link....
The wording just looks dodgy to me
Plus, this is their first post.
Maybe I am paranoid...

The website looks legit to me. Anti-keylogger for Mac.

 

[jinin]

It is allways the free email services that get hacked, especially Hotmail, there is allways so much crap being moved around through cyberspace.

 

[Virides]

Apologies to this person if you are legit, but beware of clicking on this link....
The wording just looks dodgy to me
Plus, this is their first post.
Maybe I am paranoid...

What I do for these kinds of links is hover over the button and in the bottom left of the window (Internet Explorer atleast) shows the link (only if the link is a word and not the link itself). Then I search on google the keywords of the link. If it is dodgy you usually get someone who has clicked it then posted on a forum that it is a scam or virus related

In this case as notechistiger said, it is legit.

 

[Tornacade]

It's just an msn spreader, just change your password to that email and it should stp[