Hotmail Problem

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by JoshuaJ, Sep 7, 2008.

  1. JoshuaJ

    JoshuaJ Private E-2

    Hey!

    My girlfriend phoned me this morning telling me that I had sent her a suspicious email. However, I haven't been on my computer for the past two days. When I logged onto my Hotmail account, it seems that someone (or something) has sent the following message to everyone of my contacts:

    " Heya,how are you doing recently ? I would like to introduce you a very good company which i knew.Their website is www.trade218.com .They can offer you all kinds of electronical products which you need like laptops ,gps ,TV LCD,cell phones,ps3,MP3/4,motorcycles etc........Please take some time to have a check ,there must be somethings you 'd like to purchase .
    Their contact email: trade-219@hotmail.com. MSN: trade-218@hotmail.com
    TEL: 0086+135 2231 7720
    Hope you have a good mood in shopping from their company !
    Regards "

    I have no idea who this company is, and I've never done business with them. The thing is, this message made itself a "Vacation Reply" so it sent itself when people sent me messages. I have disabled the "Vacation Reply" option, however, I'm not actually able to delete the text, leading me to think that it is some sort of virus doing it.

    I have changed my password to be on the safe side.

    I have also followed the "Vista Cleaning Procedure", however, I wasn't able to run ComboFix, so I therefore don't have a log for it.

    Thanks for any help anyone can give.
     

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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Your logs do not show any signs of malware. Not sure how, but perhaps someone had somehow obtained your login and password at hotmail and used it to send spam. The other possibility is that someone has your contact list and is spamming your contacts and is spoofing your address.

    You should uninstall all those old Sun Java versions as requested in step 1 of the READ ME.
     

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