RE: Has my Hotmail account been infiltrated?

Here's another good article.

http://www.bhsbees.com/virus_info1.htm

I should have read down a little further in your posting about
having anti-virus SW. Some other person you know who has
your e-mail and does not have anti-virus SW could have been
responsible for creating those e-mails.


"planethoth" wrote:

> Hi I have a serious problem that I believe may be some form of identity
> theft and breach of security.
>
> I have been informed by a few people that I know that they have
> received emails, allegedly from me, which usually have the following
> traits:
>
> 1. they are from my Hotmail account and name, although the name on
> these emails has only my first initial instead of my full name that all
> my email accounts and client are set to
>
> 2. they are usually blank, but one or two reports that they had
> attachments
>
> 3. the subject line includes the phrase "Not read:" and is often
> followed by subject line text that had been in previous emails between
> myself and them.
>
> I am using a Mac with Microsoft Entourage as my primary email client. I
> have run both Norton Antivirus and MacScan and have found NO viruses,
> spyware or keyloggers. I have turned on OS X's firewall and I
> frequently clear all my browser caches and cookies. I have changed my
> Hotmail/MSN password. So far, this did not solve the problem.
>
> I do not use forwards nor multiple-address emails, and my contacts have
> zero connection to each other except through me. They do not receive
> emails from each other nor have each other as contacts. The only
> connection is through me. Does someone have access to my address and
> contacts somehow? This is very worrisome, your help is greatly
> appreciated... I have not received any response from Microsoft Security
> and this is very frustrating... I am worried someone can do some real
> damage.
>
>
.

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