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I think you may have a virus/trojan/etc.

I received some e-mails from you that don't look like they really came from you.

Ditto that here

Unless you are now running a chineese factory of some kind.

I had that same issue from my hotmail account today when I logged in at work....SOme chinese export company managed to spam everyone on my address list....and the only way I found out it was happening was that two of the accounts it spammed no longer exist, so I got a failure notification back. Since it was Hotmail, i am pretty sure it wasn't on my computer. I have no idea what to do about it now, though

What a way to do business, eh?

I use a hotmail account so I can have an email address to give to sites that require one but I fear will sell my info and so garner me a ton of spam. For sites I trust I use my regular address. I was unable to log into my hotmail account for a day because it rejected my user name and password. My security question kept coming up in chinese. I googled the problem and came up with some information that indicated someone in china had hijacked the main hotmail login page off MSN.com. I typed a direct link, in the address bar of my browser, to the login page and got in just fine. It was only if I used the link off MSN.com that I went to the hacked page. I don't have any names or email addresses in my hotmail account so there shouldn't be any outgoing emails. From the looks of things they hacked into Microsofts servers and got access that way.

Same issue came up with me for Yahoo mail. I changed my password and sent an email to contact Yahoo. Pisses me off that someone can hijack my email to spam my family and friends!!!

I have anti virus on my computer and haven't been to any porno sites.
I don't know how this could happen. I have checked my computer twice since 6/27/08. Ran the hole system and got a clean bill of health. I don't know any chinamen since Shan Ki Chek passed. Bud

antivirus won't catch a spyware program that captures your keystrokes on your computer. Dangerous software especially if you do banking online or access paypal, or etc... You need to download and run spybot and adaware (do a search on the web). I just found the culprit at my house. Before I left for my trip I borrowed my daughter's computer to check my email. I am sitting here running spybot and just found the program that captured my keystrokes and sent them off to China. Hence the reason the kids have their own (cheap used but good enough) computers to run those free games on the internet.