ot HELP!!

Ooooh my OH had this happen to him with his hotmail account, he had to change email addy

Have you tried contacting your provider & i'm sure someone said once that changing the password helps but i'm not too sure on this.

Good luck

My hotmail account got hacked so I changed the password to a stronger one. Might be worth contacting the support.

I've contacted my hosting company but there are literally 100's coming through every minute!

Loads of my contacts in my yahoo got sent a load of rubbish, i had a major clear out of my contacts list and changed my password. i do get rubbish everynow and then from a friend addwhich has obviously been hacked, its such a pain in the rear end!

Arrrggghh! I had my account hackled & they had changed the password. Changed it now so fingers crossed just came back to 3784 emails!

What do you use as your mail program? You might be able to use a filter to cut out the return messages and leave you junk free!

Just a note this doesn't always have to be because you got hacked. It's quite easy to fake an email reply address and a lot of spammers do it. You might have just got unlucky and they used yours.

Alex

Spoke too soon still coming through by the shedload!

You need to run a virus check and neutralise anything it finds. If it is a physical hacker then I am not sure, they are usually spybot thingies that are not human, so just changing your paswords won't solve it as the program will be able to decode it again. I sound like I know, but it happened to 2 work colleagues hotmails this week and OH told me the above advice. Good luck!

It usually ends after about 24 hours when they move on to someone else, just a pain deleting it all

Try changing your password using the virtual Microsoft keyboard in case you have downloaded a keylogger which is recording your physical keyboard strokes and learning your password that way.

On the Start menu:

Point to All Programs.

Point to Accessories.

Point to Accessibility.

Select On-Screen Keyboard.

Note A message box with a link to more information about the On-Screen Keyboard may appear. To close the box, select OK.

Thanks have done a full scan now & my hosting comapny found a file & deleted it.

I have just found all my emails in a spam folder as well, so anyone waiting for a reply please be patient I have a ton of emails to get through now!