well my friend got spam sent through his account.
his account was not hacked, there are services where you can mimic
someone elses email address.
All you need to do is trick the recieving email program that you are
another address.
If you are scared you can always change your password.
As long as you keep your antivirus and windows and other programs up
to date and your protection on then you should feel better or rather
be as safe as you can be.
If you still feel scared, you can reformat every few months.
It won't do anything really but it may make you feel happier.
Ofcause it goes without saying if you use any ms account they are
always targeted.
gmail is really good from the get go.
You may need sight to set up the account due to recapcha being a real
pig but once done its really good.
If you are that scared put the 2 step varification which sends codes
at your phone whenever you want to access it.
you will need passwords for each app though.
If you are really paranoid like me, don't link anything to your gmail.
I have aol for aim, and my printer company for support but twitter I
don't have same with facebook, I have an apple account but my email
is not listed.
At 12:03 a.m. 18/11/2012 -0500, you wrote:
Since this has never happened to me before, I'm curious to know how or
why my account was hacked. I, too, didn't think it was likely for that
to happen to a Gmail account, but I guess I was proved wrong. Does
this mean I have a virus on my computer that I should be looking into,
or do email accounts get compromised randomly sometimes? I'm not
noticing any weird behavior otherwise from my computer, nor has
Microsoft Security Essentials alerted me of any problems, so I'm not
sure if I should be doing anything else besides what I've already done
to secure my email account.
On 11/17/12, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
> well I have a friend on hotmail, and friequently his address sends
> spam though his account seems not to be crompromised.
> Saying that my uncle had an account hacked.
> he was banned from using any ms service, and it took me and him
> several hours to restore everything, this included his ms account
> cloud service and windows activations insidently.
> Its why I am so happy I have gmail.
> And why I have 2 windows ms accounts.
> this email has one just for ms services but I have another for msn
> which came from an old isp so if in doubt I use the older one that i
> use for msn.
> no one can email me because that email address is now blocked due to
> the fact I don't use and left it to overload and get itself banned
> perminantly.
> The only reason at all I even have the second account is if I forget
> the password because I can never recover that password again.
>
> At 05:22 a.m. 17/11/2012 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi Desiree,
>>
>>The spam message we got on list didn't originate from your account. It
>>came from another member. So no worries. Still, I hope you get your
>>own spam issues worked out as spam is a nasty problem we all have to
>>deal with at one time or another. :D
>>
>>On 11/16/12, Desiree Oudinot <turtlepowe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Oh no, I think it might have been me whose account was hacked...I'm so
>> > sorry that this happened, I know it's not my fault, but I feel
>> > terrible about it. But I just logged into my email account about 10
>> > minutes ago and saw that my inbox was flooded with all these spam
>> > messages that I had apparently sent out to all the lists I'm
>> > subscribed to, along with everyone else. So I'm doing my best to clean
>> > up the damage, I've changed my password, and I hope that takes care of
>> > it. Again, I sincerely apologize.
>> >
>>
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