Re: Need help from Hotmail......contact info?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dontstrokeme</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[
I love your logic Ratbert, the only thing that upsets me is I am on a wireless setup now and I noticed that the windows explorer would remember my password.....pretty sure it could have somthing to do with that....but now since I am all fuzzed up in my hotmail I am concerned about the vunerability of all my other passwords and shit. My dad is a CPU tech for our School District so I will have to clear off the porn and have him help me out....I knew I didn't want to go wireless!!!!
Adaware comes back with some small items like normal but nothing crazy on my side.
Thanks for the help all...WTF does Hotmail have absolutely no way of contacting them? Unless I am really bad at google and nobody has taken the time to prove me wrong but I can not find a phone number or email address for tech support......F'rs</div></div>
Even if you're using non WPA secured WiFi, your login to Hotmail is via an SSL connection so they didn't sniff you via that. If you haven't got your computer properly fire-walled and locked down then it's possible they've compromised your machine and captured your password via that. However, there's absolutely no reason they would need or want to for these symptoms so there's no real reason to go looking at your machine. They are trying to send out a bunch of messages and know that 95%+ of them are going to bounce back. They don't want to those bounces so their software picks a random address from their mailing list and addresses all the messages as being from that. Happens to one or another of our users a couple times a year. A real PITA for us network guys because, apart from that users' mailbox being flooded with messages (we usually just disable it until the flood stops) your mail relay and virus scanning servers are bombarded and other valid incoming messages are delayed as well, though this is an everyday event for the likes of hotmail, so don't cry for them so much. They pretty much asked for it by setting up a free public mail service. Which, incidentally, is why they don't have a staff of tech support standing by to hold your hand on problems like this. They have millions of users who are each paying fuck-all for the service, you get what you pay for.
ArcticLight, not trying to turn this into a dick measuring contest but if you see this " first and foremost because the main PC had a virus and was using the email address" then either you don't have the experience I'd deduced you did from reading your previous posts or you've been extremely sheltered from these sorts of problems by dealing with .gov type systems. A decent percentage of the bounce messages will include the IP of the transmitting mail server. Glance thru that and you'll see that the messages originated neither via hotmail mail servers or his local IP.
I will admit, however, that I long ago abandoned concerning myself about the day to day workings of a single user's desktop, so I really couldn't comment on what consumer anti-virus packages are most effective these days.
