apparently a virus is sending emails to everyone in my contact list

neesernicole

i changed my password to the account ... that's all I can think of to make it stop (but who knows if that will do the trick). any ideas?

firefightersgal

I had to close my account to make it stop.  Thankfully, the account it was sending from was an old one.  I felt horrible, though.  It sent to everyone on the fire department at least once.  (Along with everyone else).

DevonPow

Is it hotmail, by any chance? This is happening to a ton of people I know lately - all on hotmail, and it just happened to me last week. I switched to Gmail and deleted all the contacts and emails in my old account. It was a huge PITA.

r9stedt

yea, i saw that and didn't open it from you~

neesernicole

yes, it's hotmail. this sucks. and sorry R!

Hooray2005

Ugh!  I just had the same thing happen with one of my old hotmail accounts, too!  I tried changing the password, too - we'll see if it stops.

What a PITA - thinking I need to switch to gmail, too...

***sorry if I've emailed anyone - it wasn't me, so don't open it!****

juniper19

It probably isn't a virus.  You were probably "phished" which means that you were tricked into giving away your password on a web page that looked like the hotmail login but wasn't really.  Changing your password should be enough to stop it.  In the future, be very careful when you click on a link in your email to any site where you have to login (email, online banking, facebook, etc).

WhiteOrchid.

I had the same thing happen this week, although my account is through yahoo. I was so embarrassed when a friend contacted me about it. I had no idea! I changed my password and deleted my entire contact list. I saved my contacts as a word file. I didn't want to change accounts because I've had this yahoo e-mail for 12 years. Hopefully the steps I took will stop it.

MrsCorbin

I had the same thing happen to my Yahoo account.  I hope the password change works.