Dear Ignatius
This is a very common problem today, this happens due to a un-updated or weak
antivirus and security software. There is so much malware created by the minute
that it is very important to keep your security software up-to-date by the hour.
If you hotmail account is hacked, DO NOT TRY to change the password or access
the account from your same computer. Do it from another "CLEAN" computer and
there is chance for you to regain access. I know its a tough experience to get
hotmail help you with this request as hotmail does not offer support as its a
FREE service.
One of the biggest possibility of getting infected is through links on social
websites such as Facebook. We receive plenty of complaints on a daily basis
reporting such issues. So never click on links on social websites even if it is
from your friends as those infected links could have been posted through one of
your friends infected computer.
Lets not forget that old saying "Prevention is better than cure"
Best Wishes
Agnelo
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:29:41 +0000
> From: igg...@yahoo.co.uk
> To: goa...@goanet.org
> Subject: [Goanet] a/c hacked ? distress call from Spain
>
> I too was a victim of e-mail hacking in early December 2010
> I could not enter my domain someone in West Africa hacked
> into my e-mail address iggy.fernan...@hotmail.co.uk. I quickly
> wrote an e-mail to Goa-net which they did not publish all I wanted
> was to inform my Goa-net contacts that if they were asked for money
> by this person it would be a scam. That I was fine and I had enough
> money to look after myself and moreover I was in U.K.
> The hot-mail people were completely and utterly useless in helping
> me out, well aware that I was the original owner of that e-mail address.
> I was not getting any of Goa-net posts and that I missed most.
> I phoned Frederick Noronha the Goa-net convener when I was in
> Goa and informed him of my change of e-mail address.
> He quickly changed my e-mail address to my present one.
> Thank you Frederick for that eternally grateful
> Ignatius Fernandes
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