hdansjr
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My wife uses Hotmail for email. Yesterday when i checked my work email, i saw an e-mail from her. Turned out that it was an email that contained two links to porn/viagra sites. All of her contacts recieved emails from her account while our computers were asleep during the night before.
I have ran Microsoft Security Esentials, Malwarebytes, and SpyBot Search and Destory, just to check for viruses/malware on our computer. All scans came up clean. However, my wife is still freaking out stating she's not going to use that computer and she feels violated.
My question is, for my wife to see people's responses, could this have happend because someone "got" her address, and used a program to figure out her password(which was two very common words seperated by the number 4 for a total of 8 characters), and not a piece of malware/trojan/virus on our computer? She enters various truly legit contests that ask for her e-mail address, and I think someone grabbed her email address at that point. Maybe i'm the one being niave....
I have ran Microsoft Security Esentials, Malwarebytes, and SpyBot Search and Destory, just to check for viruses/malware on our computer. All scans came up clean. However, my wife is still freaking out stating she's not going to use that computer and she feels violated.
My question is, for my wife to see people's responses, could this have happend because someone "got" her address, and used a program to figure out her password(which was two very common words seperated by the number 4 for a total of 8 characters), and not a piece of malware/trojan/virus on our computer? She enters various truly legit contests that ask for her e-mail address, and I think someone grabbed her email address at that point. Maybe i'm the one being niave....