My hotmail got hacked, bleh; Any advice in double checking I didn't catch something?

[Elizara]

Ok. I got two people tell me they'd gotten spam from my hotmail account this morning which I rarely use.

You understand I use most of the regular security precautions (Adblocker plus, noscript, firewall, etc) and stuff (tho I just swapped antiviruses again to panda cloud tho I'd be willing to swap again within reason. And right now I don't have much money, would like to eventually go to NOD32 but lack of money is holding me back. And if anyone tries to tell me where to get a cracked version, I will draw and quarter them; after one incident I had in college with a bad copy of MS Office, nothing pirated comes within 10 miles of my PC.). I've already changed the pass.

I'm thinking I'm going to do a full scan tonight when I head to bed just to be safe (tho since I use that pass several different places, it wouldn't be hard to get); Is there anything else I can do to make sure I didn't pick up a keylogger that stole the pass?

[antihero]

fairly confident it's not a keylogger that stole your information, a hotmail account that I haven't used since '99 started sending out spam recently (I have the email as a contact on my new account), I think it's just some kind of spider that harvests and bruteforces hotmails. I just keep backups and reformat anytime anything goes wrong these days though :/ not bothering with a/v anymore. just noticed your location, I'm north of atlanta lols

>one incident with a bad copy of MS Office
it's all a matter of knowing your sources, everything is pirated and I've never gotten a virus. admittedly there are tons of people who download rips and reupload viruses within, it's not hard to avoid them.

[Yabby]

Not a key logger, like antihero said. I've set my spam hotmail account's password to something weak, give it a few weeks and it starts sending mail. Changed it to something strong and it stops. I've done this a few times just to see how long it would take. Normally takes a few weeks before they get a hold of it.

[The Stig]

Isn't this all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing ?

Otherwise a lot of my friends are idiots lol

[Yabby]

It would be, but they are hacking the account itself, not just masking itself as your e-mail. You know this when everyone in your contact list is getting the e-mail, not just random people.

[Uzor]

Same with my old hotmail. Haven't used it in years, and suddenly I started getting emails to my new account from the old one. I logged in and changed password just in case, and now I can't even log in to it anymore, just says I've entered the wrong password too many times and that the account has been locked. Not that it matters since I don't use it, just find it funny. I suppose that's one way to fix it.

Also; companies hate hotmail addresses. We get spam mail from customers every day that use hotmail - and we can't block them since that might make us miss actual important mail from them. I highly doubt we are the only company with that problem. I'm not sure how to fix it either, we've tried filtering by words, but things always slip past, and can't filter too much or important mail may get sent to junk. The only solution I could think of is to rework the website and make one of those "customer support" forms with a "noreply" address to communicate through or something...

[Elizara]

Whew. I had thought I'd caught something. And Anti; what was really bad is I got that office off Ebay. I thought I was getting a legit OEM version off there, but what I got..

Was a very clever pirated version. It looked legit until you looked at it closely and it messed up my windows 98 system (Yeah. Was old). I swore off buying software off ebay after that unless it came with box and manual; if I want OEM now I buy it off Newegg. It also scared me off piracy pretty much permanently unless you count SNES/NES roms piracy.