I have an e-mail virus, what to do?

[RGBVideo]

That is, my junk e-mail (hotmail clone), which I use when registering to different free places (such as this forum) in the Internet, gets tricksy spam. the spam checks out my mailing list and seems to re-send itself to all the people who have sent mail to my junk e-mail and to all the people I have sent e-mail to in the past 5 years, the entire time I've had that e-mail address.

any ideas what should I do?

[Nubclear]

Turn off your computer and never come back on.
No computer...no virus!

[BlackCat]

Update your antivirus program.

[Kuciwalker]

Re: I have an e-mail virus, what to do?

Originally posted by VJ
That is, my junk e-mail (hotmail clone), which I use when registering to different free places (such as this forum) in the Internet, gets tricksy spam. the spam checks out my mailing list and seems to re-send itself to all the people who have sent mail to my junk e-mail and to all the people I have sent e-mail to in the past 5 years, the entire time I've had that e-mail address.

any ideas what should I do?

owned!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Did you ask Chariot or ari?

[Zkribbler]

GOOD GOD! DON'T GO BRINGING IT IN HERE!!

Unclean! Unclean!!!

[Zkribbler runs to get his army-surplus flamethrower.]

[SlowwHand]

Run anti-virus and spyware program in safe mode after unchecking System Restore.

[notyoueither]

Hotmail clone? Hmm..



Let's be spammers.

Let's offer free email to people.

Let's collect the addys they send email to or receive email from.

Let's send our spam to those addys.

Let's make it free so we get lots of takers.

Better yet, let's get really criminal and start a server in Russia where we 'sell' music for $0.10 a song. We'll collect the cc numbers and send them to our pal Boris in California who can then clone cards and go on a notebook buying spree.

Enjoy your 'free' service, and other deals that seem really good.

[RGBVideo]

guys...

(1) it's a hotmail account. did you read the OP? anti-virus and spyware removers ON MY COMPUTER don't do anything, because I have no problems IN MY COMPUTER. I have had anti-virus programs and firewall updated for the last 5+ years. the problem is not in my computer, it's an apparent autosender of some sort within the hotmail address.

(2) luukku.com, ever heard of it? no? it's owned by these guys. never heard of that, either? could it be because you're an ignorant and arrogant canadian redneck jackass who lets his ass speak before his brain thinks?

(3) i can see several of you are already masturbating at the thought that I did something wrong and this ruins my life, but I don't actually need that e-mail address for anything. like i said, it's a "junk" address. I purely use it when needing to register to forums like this. too bad one place where i registered obviously had sold their soul to the tricksy spamsters (i'm guessing home of the underdogs fora). it's not a big deal, but guys in these sorts of fora who have something to tell me use my forum information to contact me via that address get their own hotmails trashed. it would be easy to just dump the e-mail account and carry on as usual, but that wouldn't be horribly nice to the people sending me e-mail in the future because it's the only contact info they get from me in case I'm keeping it public.

[snoopy369]

I don't think hotmail gets viruses on the hotmail servers (often) ... mayhap it's a virus your virusscanners don't know to look for yet?

Perhaps try setting up a new account (hotmail or otherwise) and have the first account autoforward to it - see if that blocks the virus. If it's local to the address, it should stop (except for that address itself of course getting spam still) - unless the new one gets infected, but my understanding of such things implies that's not likely. But, if it continues, then it's something local to your machine and/or something ... else.

[snoopy369]

Even better, set up a new account to POPmail access the first account, that's somewhat safer virus-wise [for the server, not for your computer]... if hotmail lets you have popmail access anyway ...

[notyoueither]

I purely use it when needing to register to forums like this. too bad one place where i registered obviously had sold their soul to the tricksy spamsters (i'm guessing home of the underdogs fora).

And then you come here and claim a 'virus' is reading your mailing list and doing eevil things, all with no intervention by you, and we're ignorant and arrogant?

[Chemical Ollie]

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[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by VJ
guys...

(1) it's a hotmail account. did you read the OP? anti-virus and spyware removers ON MY COMPUTER don't do anything, because I have no problems IN MY COMPUTER. I have had anti-virus programs and firewall updated for the last 5+ years. the problem is not in my computer, it's an apparent autosender of some sort within the hotmail address.

Dude, you're completely ****ing clueless

(3) i can see several of you are already masturbating at the thought that I did something wrong and this ruins my life,

No, just at how stupid you are.

but I don't actually need that e-mail address for anything. like i said, it's a "junk" address. I purely use it when needing to register to forums like this. too bad one place where i registered obviously had sold their soul to the tricksy spamsters (i'm guessing home of the underdogs fora).

Spammers getting your email address doesn't suddenly give them the ability to send emails from it