"hi You should see this" Email Virus?

Question

Hey guys. I have recently been a victim of a email virus.
Today my mum called me up from her work and asked me if i had sent her an email to her work email address and i said no. She said that her works computer wouldn't open it because it was a virus. But, i do not recall opening any suspicious emails, i don't open anything that I am unsure off. I am now at school and i checked my emails and what i have sent and sure enough i had sent on a virus to almost everyone in my address book, plus got a few virus emails back from the people i had sent it too, but i have no idea how i sent these emails without clicking on anything, i guess I have been hacked? I looked up the title of the email on google, the subject name is "hi You should see this." I found that it has been going around on forums as well as email. Has anyone else had this problem? How do you stop these emails from happening? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-Jazzi

Answer 1

someone had sent something similar to this to me on facebook but thankfully i didn't open the link. . . .what i suggest it to do these three things. . . .



1. SEND OUT A WARNING EMAIL TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK THAT THEY SHOULD NOT CLICK ON THE LINK



2. either change your password or delete the email account and make a new one, making sure that you transfer all your important files and so forth to the new account first



3. do a quick online virus scan of your computer and then after you do make sure to fix the problem and then thats it. . . hope i helped

Answer 2

You most likely agreed some terms of use, to a site allowing it to send ads around.





Properly a site, you delievered your mail details to.







Solution:

Change your mail password.

Answer 3

I bet it was created by an AZN like me;)