Hotmail Nightmare

[BlueSmurf]

Well its happened something has got into my hotmail/messenger account sent everyone a email saying" get a iphone cheap from this internet account" then it deleted all my contacts.I then tried my messenger account and saw my contacts there disappear in front of me.

No I did not have my contacts which I have built up over 10 years written down.Stupid YES I know but too late now "the horse has bolted"....What a nightmare. I have had automatically emailed messeges from friends with adverts over the last year but none of them has done this...the reason I knew what happened is that I had some returned emails from (via postmaster) contacts that now are dead accounts.

I hope this helps you all but I don't think it will as its seems its too late once you have opened one of these friend generated mails.

I have contacted messenger help and will leave it with them to see if they can retrieve my contacts. I could see from other posts at their site that this is a big problem. Any suggestions about future ways( I will write my contacts down now so not that one please) I can operate my email accounts will be taken on board..Thankyou and good luck with your security. Oh one other thing this has not effected my computer. I have run 3 different scans to check for virus etc. So its in microsofts server.

[Mario2008]

Moved to the computer forum as not visa related

[petedk]

I had the same problem with one of my old Hotmail accounts. I think it was an invitation to see a slide show or something. Usually I don't click on these things but it was from a close friend.

Luckily I mainly used that account for subscriptions and such.

The problem now is that the virus keeps sending emails from my account (I don't who it sends to as I don't have any contacts left) and i get the usual email from Postmaster@... saying that the email can't be sent.

I think you can download Messenger Plus and see who has you on their list. Then you can add them again.

[stolidfeline]

This is one of the problems with using online accounts over which you have no control. Why don't you use a proper mailer, or at least use Windows Live Messenger to keep copies of all your online mail?

[BlueSmurf]

This is one of the problems with using online accounts over which you have no control. Why don't you use a proper mailer, or at least use Windows Live Messenger to keep copies of all your online mail?

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As you can see from my original post I use messenger as well and all my contacts have gone from there too.I seem to have my emails so I'am going through them at the moment to get a contact list back.But I do not keep all my mails.Thanks