Hotmail spam?

[telboy]

How the fudge do you stop your hotmail email account from sending spam emails out to everyone in your contact list?!

I have opend nothing suspicious, not been on any dodgy sites, regularly clear my cache of files and have up to date virus protection...which is finding nothing!

Its doing my head in now.

[purpletimbo]

someone has hacked your account probably, can you access it and swap your password, then whatever bot is doing it, should be denied access

[OneKiwi]

Yep Ive had the same problem... change your password I think someone/somebot has it, that helped me but the biggest help was to get a gmail account.

Was a little pain changing over but got it done fairly quickly and now I barely use the hotmail account

Gmail is recommemded

[mattJT]

When this happened to me, deleted my contact list and that solved it

[telboy]

Hmm, changed the password yesterday. But it sent some more out afterwards.
Drastic measures are called for I think.

[bodgit]

Change to googlemail. I had lots of problems with my last lot but with gmail I dont get any problems.