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V.I.P - Pimp Donater
Email address compromised
My cousin has had his h o t m a i l account compromised.
Its sent out emails to all his contacts about cheap mobile phones...and then deleted all his contacts.
He changed his password but what else can he do?
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Hi, I'm not computer literate but I suppose he needs to also check that his PC hasnt been infected such he'll have other passwords stolen.
Alternatively if he accidentally gave it away by using a shared computer like in a Internet Cafe he should be OK. In the latter case I always chose the browser option to delete all history before logging off.
HTH
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V.I.P - Pimp Donater
Virus scans etc are not showing up anything. Strange
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V.I.P
Download Proces***plorer from microsoft and check on the running processes. Anti Virus programs are not 100% perfect, and something may be running that they haven't found.
This sounds like a trojan of some sort, you might also want to get TCPView (also MS) to check if any net connections are siphoning data from the PC.
Another check could be to see if there is a rootkit compromise, Google for resources to check for this.
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Senior Member
microsoft security essentials is quite
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Black Hole Team
It's a typical h o t m a i l scam.
Changing his password is normally enough.
I have been caught out twice with h o t m a i l scams
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More than 10000+ H o t m a i l Accounts Exposed in October 2009,Gmail and Y a h o o were also affected by the compromise.
Some does and don'ts:
Do change your passwords on a regular basis (every six months or so)
Do use long complex pass-phrases rather than passwords where you can
Do change all of your passwords if you notice something suspicious
Do take identity theft seriously
Do use up-to-date anti-virus and a firewall
Do NOT click on links in emails, ever
Do NOT use the same password at multiple sites
Last edited by bob; 07-02-2010 at 01:21 AM.
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