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March 13th 10, 12:04 PM
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Where's my Junk gone?
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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March 13th 10, 03:27 PM
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Where's my Junk gone?
Pete L wrote:
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? 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? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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March 13th 10, 09:09 PM
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On 13 Mar, 15:27, "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
Pete L wrote: 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? 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? -- Shenan Stanley * * *MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html 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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March 13th 10, 11:01 PM
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Where's my Junk gone?
Pete L wrote:
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? Shenan Stanley wrote: 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? Pete L wrote: 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? 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. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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March 14th 10, 04:18 PM
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On 13 Mar, 23:01, "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
Pete L wrote: 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? Shenan Stanley wrote: 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? Pete L wrote: 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? 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. -- Shenan Stanley * * *MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html 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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