Where's my Junk gone?

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Pete L

A week ago I picked up a virus? which kindly sent a spam mail to all
of my contacts and for good measure deleted them all. I have managed
to get most of my contacts back now and all seems to be working ok.
The only big difference is when I check my mails (I just use Hotmail)
my inbox contains mails from known sources and usually my junk mail
contains hundreds of Viagras, loans etc. I have not had a single junk
mail since. What is going on? Has my address been somehow lost in the
outside world and I am now no longer considered worthy of loans,
viagra, winnings on the Timbuktoo lottery?

I don't miss this junk but I'd be interested to know why it has all
stopped now?
 
Pete said:
A week ago I picked up a virus? which kindly sent a spam mail to all
of my contacts and for good measure deleted them all. I have managed
to get most of my contacts back now and all seems to be working ok.
The only big difference is when I check my mails (I just use
Hotmail) my inbox contains mails from known sources and usually my
junk mail contains hundreds of Viagras, loans etc. I have not had a
single junk mail since. What is going on? Has my address been
somehow lost in the outside world and I am now no longer considered
worthy of loans, viagra, winnings on the Timbuktoo lottery?

I don't miss this junk but I'd be interested to know why it has all
stopped now?
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What was the virus?
Is this the same email address or a new one?
*How* do you check your hotmail account? That is just a email provider -
how do you get the mail and read/respond to it?
 
What was the virus?
Is this the same email address or a new one?
*How* do you check your hotmail account?  That is just a email provider-
how do you get the mail and read/respond to it?
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I do not know what the virus was - or if it was a standard virus. What
happened was that I had a call from my son to say that he had recieved
a spam e-mail from me and apparently everybody else on my contacts
list had. When I went into Hotmail I found that all my contacts had
been wiped apart from my own. Not sure what you mean by *how* do I get
my mail. I have a Hotmail account and I just go to the Hotmail website
and read any mails that come to me. I'm just curious as to why I am
not receiving any junk mail now. Has my e-mail address been lost
somehow?
 
Pete said:
A week ago I picked up a virus? which kindly sent a spam mail to all
of my contacts and for good measure deleted them all. I have managed
to get most of my contacts back now and all seems to be working ok.
The only big difference is when I check my mails (I just use
Hotmail) my inbox contains mails from known sources and usually my
junk mail contains hundreds of Viagras, loans etc. I have not had a
single junk mail since. What is going on? Has my address been
somehow lost in the outside world and I am now no longer considered
worthy of loans, viagra, winnings on the Timbuktoo lottery?

I don't miss this junk but I'd be interested to know why it has all
stopped now?
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Shenan said:
What was the virus?
Is this the same email address or a new one?
*How* do you check your hotmail account? That is just a email
provider - how do you get the mail and read/respond to it?
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Pete said:
I do not know what the virus was - or if it was a standard virus.
What happened was that I had a call from my son to say that he had
recieved a spam e-mail from me and apparently everybody else on
my contacts list had. When I went into Hotmail I found that all my
contacts had been wiped apart from my own. Not sure what you
mean by *how* do I get my mail. I have a Hotmail account and I
just go to the Hotmail website and read any mails that come to me.
I'm just curious as to why I am not receiving any junk mail now.
Has my e-mail address been lost somehow?
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Well - given what you have now; you use Hotmail via the web interface only
(no client - you don't use Outlook Express, Outlook Thunderbird or any other
email client software to send/receive your email - just whatever web browser
happens to be installed/readily available to you) and the fact that you
don't know what virus you had (how do you know it is cleaned off *if* you in
fact ever had a virus?) - I would venture to say it doesn't sound like you
ever had a virus.

More like someone hacked your hotmail account.

Did you change your password? (*if not - I *HIGHLY* suggest you do that
now.)

You could be seeing the result of just improved filtering or just been lucky
for a few weeks. I'm unsure why this is an issue and I assure you - you'll
likely get spam again. It's the nature of the beast. They come in sporadic
bursts sometimes. Server Admins pull out some trick and suddenly you get
less spam. Spamsters figure out the trick/how to get around it - and
suddenly you get spam again.
 
Well - given what you have now; you use Hotmail via the web interface only
(no client - you don't use Outlook Express, Outlook Thunderbird or any other
email client software to send/receive your email - just whatever web browser
happens to be installed/readily available to you) and the fact that you
don't know what virus you had (how do you know it is cleaned off *if* youin
fact ever had a virus?) - I would venture to say it doesn't sound like you
ever had a virus.

More like someone hacked your hotmail account.

Did you change your password?  (*if not  - I *HIGHLY* suggest you do that
now.)

You could be seeing the result of just improved filtering or just been lucky
for a few weeks.  I'm unsure why this is an issue and I assure you - you'll
likely get spam again.  It's the nature of the beast.  They come in sporadic
bursts sometimes.  Server Admins pull out some trick and suddenly you get
less spam.  Spamsters figure out the trick/how to get around it - and
suddenly you get spam again.
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Thanks, Shenan. I've just changed my password. Interesting that
somebody would hack my hotmail account. I can't imagine anybody would
have responded to the advert that was sent out to all my contacts.
Guess it's like the $10m I am often asked to share with Nigerian
gentlemen - all it needs is one e-mail in a million for somebody to
reply and claim their $10mill!
 
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