My e-mail has been compromised

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May 29 2011, 5:17 pm
Today I logged in to my MSN and noticed that I had 35 unread messages. All of these were delivery failure notifications, save for a warning from Iain Peregrine saying I had been compromised. Does anyone know how to purge this spambot from my account?
May 29 2011, 5:19 pm
No.
May 29 2011, 5:25 pm
The same damn thing happened to me today. I ran a virus and spyware scan, reinstalled WLM, and changed my password. This was about twelve hours ago and I don't seem to have any more popping up.
May 29 2011, 5:26 pm
LordAndrew wrote:
The same damn thing happened to me today. I ran a virus and spyware scan, reinstalled WLM, and changed my password. This was about twelve hours ago and I don't seem to have any more popping up.

That's what happens when you frequent porn sites.
May 29 2011, 5:31 pm
Idk. Do what Andrew did. And do be a porno pedo bear.
May 29 2011, 5:43 pm
I know that Hotmail has security issues that aren't always the fault of the user. Back in mid 2009 (I believe around July) lots of accounts randomly began sending out spam to contact lists and hotmail refused to say whether their servers were compromised. My account was one of those and the emails that were being sent out were for some sort of Chinese electronics crap. Then in October of that year it was revealed that thousands of accounts were compromised.

I just changed my password and deleted all of my contacts in order to ensure they didn't receive any more spam messages (the spam was only being sent to random people on my contacts list). I've never kept my contacts saved on hotmail since.
May 29 2011, 6:13 pm
Change your password.
May 29 2011, 7:03 pm
Whoa, you weren't kidding about spam. Just received weird email from your contact that happened the same way to another contact (also got me free spam email) on my Windows Live/MSN list.
May 29 2011, 7:43 pm
Yeah you and Duel have both been sending me random emails. I was just about to ask you about that.
May 29 2011, 7:47 pm
you should make your email on a shity website
May 30 2011, 5:49 am
I had that before, I just reinstalled Windows Live Essentials and I have't sent anymore, notice, this was about, say, 12 hours ago as well.
May 30 2011, 6:18 am
Had this happen to me as well, changed password and it stopped. (Funny enough the spam being sent was phishing emails for WoW accounts and to random people.)
May 30 2011, 7:38 am
Thank you everyone for your help. I've changed my password and security information so hopefully that solves the problem. If anyone receives any more of these e-mails from me please post in reply to this topic.