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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: Mazy on May 26, 2010, 02:21:48 AM

Title: virus in my hotmail account?
Post by: Mazy on May 26, 2010, 02:21:48 AM

Hi,

I am using avast home edition 4.8 and run a full boot scan once a week and have had no problems come up. But for the past couple of weeks my hotmail account has been sending out emails to my contact list with weird attachments. I have deleted my contact list, I never use it anyway, but don't know if that will be of any use. A couple of times while in hotmail I recieved a virus alert from avast but aborted the connection. I have run a full boot scan since then with no issues and I did a thorough scan of my local disk -- only thing I came uup with was a decompression bomb in an HP games file. I did look that up here and it sounds like it shouldn't be a problem so I'm not going to worry about that.

So what do you think is going on? Sorry if this is a repeat of other posts...

Title: Re: virus in my hotmail account?
Post by: Lisandro on May 26, 2010, 02:42:35 AM

Well, you can follow general cleaning procedures... Would you mind if I repeat myself?

1. Clean your temporary files.
2. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast with archive scanning turned on. If avast does not detect it, you can try DrWeb CureIT! (http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/) instead.
3. Use MBAM (http://malwarebytes.org/mbam.php) (or SUPERantispyware (http://www.superantispyware.com) or even Spyware Terminator (http://www.spywareterminator.com/)) to scan for spywares and trojans. If any infection is detected, better and safer is send the file to Quarantine than to simple delete them.
4. Test your machine with anti-rootkit applications (http://www.antirootkit.com/software/index.htm). I suggest avast! antirootkit (http://files.avast.com/files/beta/aswar.exe) or Trend Micro RootkitBuster (http://www.trendmicro.com/download/rbuster.asp).
5. Make a HijackThis (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/hijackthis.php) log to post here or this analysis site (http://www.hijackthis.de/#anl). Or even submit the RunScanner (http://www.runscanner.net/) log to to on-line analysis.
6. Clean your Hosts file (replacing it) with HostsMan (http://www.abelhadigital.com) tool.
7. Disable System Restore and then reenable it again.
8. Immunize your system with SpywareBlaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html).
9. Check if you have insecure applications with Secunia Software Inspector (http://secunia.com/software_inspector/).

Title: Re: virus in my hotmail account?
Post by: cajunwarthog on May 26, 2010, 08:38:11 PM

Darn, Me too,,,,,
I awoke this morning and saw the damage... Everyone in my Hotmail Contact had a spam Viagra email sent to them....My Avast was active, but it did not see the virus/malware.....

Title: Re: virus in my hotmail account?
Post by: mikaelrask on May 26, 2010, 08:48:45 PM

fallow the suggestion from Tech and see if any of those tips can help you solve it.

Title: Re: virus in my hotmail account?
Post by: Mazy on May 29, 2010, 12:07:12 AM

Thanks for the info. I will perform the recommended tasks.