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Mazy
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virus in my hotmail account?
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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...
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Lisandro
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Posts: 67183
Re: virus in my hotmail account?
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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!
instead.
3. Use
MBAM
(or
SUPERantispyware
or even
Spyware Terminator
) 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
. I suggest
avast! antirootkit
or
Trend Micro RootkitBuster
.
5. Make a
HijackThis
log to post here or
this analysis site
. Or even submit the
RunScanner
log to to on-line analysis.
6. Clean your Hosts file (replacing it) with
HostsMan
tool.
7. Disable System Restore and then reenable it again.
8. Immunize your system with
SpywareBlaster
.
9. Check if you have insecure applications with
Secunia Software Inspector
.
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cajunwarthog
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Re: virus in my hotmail account?
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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.....
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mikaelrask
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Re: virus in my hotmail account?
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Reply #3 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.
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Mazy
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Re: virus in my hotmail account?
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May 29, 2010, 12:07:12 AM »
Thanks for the info. I will perform the recommended tasks.
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