FabSwingers.com forum: MSN Hotmail

By *etillante OP Woman
over a year ago

I seem to be getting a lot of random messages from people on my hotmail list.

When I go to look at them they all have links which I assume are some kind of piece of nastiness. I have had 2 in the last 20 mins

Is this a prob with me or with the people sending them?

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

I had a couple of those yesterday, one from someone I know quite well but I still just deleted them

Im gonna tell them to stop sending me shit messages with stupid links on them

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By *ignbouncybabeWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

It's some sort of a Virus, it attaches itself to the senders address book, they don't even know the Email has been sent, I've had loads in the last few day's, I got all sexcited thought I has become popular all of a sudden

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

In that case I wonder if any of my friends have had the same from me

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By *ignbouncybabeWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

I think your safe ...if you don't open the link

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By *ignbouncybabeWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

never ever click on any links from random emails!!!!

i've been getting lots of these emails to

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By *onny BonesMan
over a year ago

a block away from heaven

I wasone of those that got hijacked by the bug. For a quick fix tell your friend to change the password to the account and all should be sorted.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

Yeah my hotmail got hijacked like this just this week.

It was definitely a hack as they sent to all my address book some shitty viagra ad.

All you can do is change your password and wait for the next hack.

It seems to be mainly hotmail.com addys that are being hit so .co.uk may be safer I have one of each and only .com got hacked.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Same here. My hotmail account got hijacked last week too so I downloaded SuperAntiSpyware which too reet good care of 'em!

It found 371 threats and deleted the lot but you have to go and change your hotmail password after you've cleaned your account as the spyware has captured your password and is using it to access and send emails from your account.

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

"Yeah my hotmail got hijacked like this just this week.

It was definitely a hack as they sent to all my address book some shitty viagra ad.

All you can do is change your password and wait for the next hack.

It seems to be mainly hotmail.com addys that are being hit so .co.uk may be safer I have one of each and only .com got hacked."

It is not a hack... changing your password will not fix it.

It is a virus.

Once it's there it's there and some of them go off and do nasty things once they have spam mailed your contact list.

Run your anti virus protection... if it finds the virus but can't fix it, a quick google will often find you a fix.... please remember to use well known anti virus sites or you may end up adding some others.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Polo, I had all this last week hon and it's a piece of spyware that's installed on the local pc that captures keystrokes, specifically passwords in web pages. It then uses that to access your hotmail account and send emails to your address book.

I ran the antispyware software, changed my hotmail password and everything has been running perfectly since.

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By *uton_coupleCouple
over a year ago

luton

we only had one message like that , with a link

although it was a friend we marked it as phishing without opening

not sure what else you can do

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"Yeah my hotmail got hijacked like this just this week.

It was definitely a hack as they sent to all my address book some shitty viagra ad.

All you can do is change your password and wait for the next hack.

It seems to be mainly hotmail.com addys that are being hit so .co.uk may be safer I have one of each and only .com got hacked.

It is not a hack... changing your password will not fix it.

It is a virus.

Once it's there it's there and some of them go off and do nasty things once they have spam mailed your contact list.

This maybe true for others but definitely not the case here. I use an Apple Mac (part of my job when not drawing pictures is Mac tech support at my work) and to date there still isn't any computer virus that exists in the wild for Macs.

Mine was a clear password hack. How it works is the hacker has a list of real hotmail addys then has software that sits there going through every combination of password and by pure chance can hack your hotmail address. This software literally runs for days, weeks, months trawling through trying to hack accounts.

Once hacked it sends off the advert email to the whole address book and logs out.

I have to stress that 99 times out of 100 this hack doesn't involve a human being at any time during this process and is a software program.

The only way to prevent this happening to you is having a very strong password containing letters, numbers, capitals and lower case and being no shorter than 8 characters.

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

"Polo, I had all this last week hon and it's a piece of spyware that's installed on the local pc that captures keystrokes, specifically passwords in web pages. It then uses that to access your hotmail account and send emails to your address book.

I ran the antispyware software, changed my hotmail password and everything has been running perfectly since."

Yes you ran your anti-spyware which removed it. Changing your password on it's own does nothing... as it just captures your new one.

There are several versions doing the rounds. A while back there was a really nasty one which plonked a virus on your hard-drive to really fuck you up after it had finished with your contact list.

Open nothing unless you are talking to the person it came from and they told you they are sending it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes, I've been getting loads of these!

If I open from my Blackberry I can see it's goobledegook and probably a virus, however, from a pc there's no subject heading and you could easily open it, as it's from a friend!

I'm also getting emails titled "photos" not opened them either!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have had problems with my msn , it started with hotmail.com it would let me sign in but would suddenly disappear and when I went to click on the tab in the sidebar it disappeared and logged me out .

I then set up 2 more accounts both with live.co.uk addresses and these have now become infected .

I have AVG anti virus and full scanned but havent found anything, its driving me mad, even wiped msn and re-installed to no avail .

help would be much appreciated

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Have had problems with my msn , it started with hotmail.com it would let me sign in but would suddenly disappear and when I went to click on the tab in the sidebar it disappeared and logged me out .

I then set up 2 more accounts both with live.co.uk addresses and these have now become infected .

I have AVG anti virus and full scanned but havent found anything, its driving me mad, even wiped msn and re-installed to no avail .

help would be much appreciated "

Its one of the reasons I have done with MSN ... I am sick of spending money on repairs and new PC/Laptops ... interesting to hear Apple don't have problems tho, that is the next one on my shopping list!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

www.superantispyware.com

Download and install that and after you've cleaned your system change your msn password.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep I'm getting them too, so annoying and a previously mentioned the senders arn't even sending them themselves

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

it is a random message virus generate from your address book. you will probably find your friends/contacts are getting similar messages from you. unfortunately the way hotmail/msn works you cant stop them but under no circumstances ever open the link, it will destroy your computer and take all your information..

changing password etc will not stop it.

i was getting loads of them and apparently sending them out as well. the only way to can stop it is to set up a new account but then you dont know if it was your computer of a contact and for that matter which contact started it up so if you add the same contacts, it is 99.9999999999999999999999% likely to just start again on your new account...

the modern age of computers hey!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I seem to be getting a lot of random messages from people on my hotmail list.

When I go to look at them they all have links which I assume are some kind of piece of nastiness. I have had 2 in the last 20 mins

Is this a prob with me or with the people sending them?"

Had similar problem in the last few days, get somebody who knows a bit about that stuff to "talk" you through removing them. Unfortunately I cannot remember it all... but I know somebody who can.

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

I keep gettingn them from my brother who reckons he isn't sending them - I tell him I know that but he has a worm/virus but of course little bro knows best!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I keep gettingn them from my brother who reckons he isn't sending them - I tell him I know that but he has a worm/virus but of course little bro knows best!"

Thats how one gets a reputation of being a timewaster I reckon - while being totally innocent

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By *etillante OP Woman
over a year ago

"I seem to be getting a lot of random messages from people on my hotmail list.

When I go to look at them they all have links which I assume are some kind of piece of nastiness. I have had 2 in the last 20 mins

Is this a prob with me or with the people sending them?

Had similar problem in the last few days, get somebody who knows a bit about that stuff to "talk" you through removing them. Unfortunately I cannot remember it all... but I know somebody who can. "

Oh I love a man who can

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Same here, and I just delete the lot.

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