Hotmail account hacked

[The Passenger]

i don't have internet at home so i only get my laptop on the net whenever i'm at college. last time i was at college was last wednesday.

come back today and when i check my e mails about 50 emails have been sent to random contacts with what presumadly has a link to some virus.

i've just run AVG and it's picked up nothing and i'm currently running ad aware and i would be suprised if it picks up anything as well.

could this simply be a case of hotmail having the account hacked?? or could it be something more mailicous such a key tracker on the computer... if so why wouldn't they go for something more useful like my bank account details as i check my bank account each day.

or even something as simple as someone looking over my shoulder at college as a type away although i doubt that as i'm a quick typer and given how often i type out my hotmail password i can do it in less than a second so i doubt anyway could spot it....

any thoughts as to what i need to look out for as i've never had my msn account hacked before.

 

[Nardz]

seems to be happening a lot lately. 2 people i know send me daily spams and dont know how to stop it...

without having it happen to me, i'd say an easy fix would be to change your password.. but apparently not..

ill tell u what i told them - close your hotmail - open a gmail.

 

[azreal]

It happened to me, but i changed my password and it stopped.

 

[The Passenger]

changed my password today, but since i posted and today there have been no further e mails.... no idea. scanned my computer with ad aware and avg and it found a few things but nothing i can see that would lead to this.

i reckon it was possibly a key logger that i used at a library last friday.

only realised today it can't be on my computer cause i never have to type in my msn log in because it automatically shows. i only have to type in my password.

 

[TRAWP]

Spyware etc cause this, just a basic Keylogger they gain access to your hotmail etc and then send out there mail... Surprisingly a lot of the people go to the links provided and the vicious cycle continues.