is this a virus or is my email hacked? please help!!?

Question

My sister showed me an email that was sent from my email address yday at 3 o'clock? About some Chinese Electric goods or some thing?
When I checked my Sent Items this email had been sent to every single person in my address book? Including one girl who that I used to go to school with who died 2 years ago? Which I thought I removed her address ages ago?
I didn’t open any suspicious emails yday?
When I tried to check my contacts in my hotmail they’ve all disappeared too?
Is this a virus or has some one hacked into my email?

This is the email copied and pasted from my sent items:

Dear sir/Madam:
We are one of the greatest Chinese exporter foreign trade wholesaler , that it can support the better service and than produced high-quality with competitive prices you. Expectant to make transactions ship with you in the long term.
we are glad to offer you the most reasonable pirces!The more you buy,the more benefits you could get,because the more you order the more discount we will give you, and what we do is just for your favor and make you obtain more benefits.
Our Web: < www.ioffeb.com >
Our mainly products such the phones, PSP, display TV, notebook, video, computers, Mp4, GPS, xbox 360, digital cameras and so on.
Welcome to visit and order on our website!
Beloved friend.

Answer 1

try to clean your pc in safe mode with malwarebytes and superantispyware and if you find something delete it manually,maybe this solve the problem.

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by the way ,how can you be an illegal midget?

Answer 2

The emails are in your sent folder?



You're infected. No doubt about it. First of all, disconnect the computer from the network to stop polluting the net with the infection that the computer has acquired.



Secondly, you need to wipe to the bare metal and rebuild.



Read this:



http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512587.aspx



Take it seriously.



Now go to Knoppix.net and get the latest Knoppix CD, and burn as an image. Use an uninfected computer to do this. It is unlikely that an infected machine can alter CD .iso files, but then one never knows.



Beg/borrow/steal a USB hard disk of sufficient size. Attach it to your computer while it is off.



Boot from the Knoppix disk. Copy the data you want to save (my documents, etc) to the USB disk.



Format the computer's hard drive. Reinstall your operating system and software.



Copy your data back to the computer from the USB drive.



To the other posters in this thread:



There is no "cleaning" up of computers anymore. It's the ultimate waste of time and sanity. The last one I "cleaned" at the customer's insistence took 3 days for the software to chew its way through the bits of evil on the disk. Even then I couldn't be sure I got everything. Actually, I'm pretty sure now that I missed something that the tools couldn't get. I wasted my time and I didn't do what was best for my customer. I swore that I'd never /ever/ do it again if I had a choice.



So if you are recommending cleaning tools, you are recommending an inadequate solution, especially since much of malware these days is designed to avoid most of the popular cleaning tools out there. This is doubly true of rootkits that are leveraged by viruses and trojans.



All it takes is one.



The best solution is prophylactic, like having ghost images and tools like Faronics' Deep Freeze. It's either that or eschew Windows altogether, which I have done for the past 12 years and don't miss.

Answer 3

First of all, after using the tips below, change your email password, and switch to mozilla firefox.

And if you have a virus, Do not fear, kaspersky has an online-scanner which is completely free and it entirely Browser-Based. The only problem with it is that any threats it finds you must delete them manually, however its not a problem as it gives you the location of the viruses. This can be found at http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner, and then click the top button for a full system scan.

If that finds only some of the viruses and you delete them but are still not happy, then run NOD32 online scan completely free also. This can be found at http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/





Kaspersky and NOD32 are your best bet for anti-virus software, and i would strongly suggest you use Kaspersky Internet Security 09, and then online NOD32 scanner as a second-opinion (If you need it which is very unlikely).

These scans can take a very long time, but other things can be done while scanning, so not to worry.





On top of that, me and my team suggest you download MalwareBytes anti-malware and SuperAntiSpyware, and run a full scan with both seperately (Not at the same time).





Your infection should now be gone.





Regards,

Answer 4

LOL its not virus or hacked ur pc, its spammers kiddes that spoofed ur mail.

spoofing some one mail is like copying other people's body.

it is possible to spoof someone mail.



E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open, and possibly even respond to, their solicitations. Spoofing can be used legitimately. Classic examples of senders who might prefer to disguise the source of the e-mail include a sender reporting mistreatment by a spouse to a welfare agency or a "whistle-blower" who fears retaliation. However, spoofing anyone other than yourself is illegal in some jurisdictions.

E-mail spoofing is possible because Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the main protocol used in sending e-mail, does not include an authentication mechanism. Although an SMTP service extension (specified in IETF RFC 2554) allows an SMTP client to negotiate a security level with a mail server, this precaution is not often taken. If the precaution is not taken, anyone with the requisite knowledge can connect to the server and use it to send messages. To send spoofed e-mail, senders insert commands in headers that will alter message information. It is possible to send a message that appears to be from anyone, anywhere, saying whatever the sender wants it to say. Thus, someone could send spoofed e-mail that appears to be from you with a message that you didn't write.



Although most spoofed e-mail falls into the "nuisance" category and requires little action other than deletion, the more malicious varieties can cause serious problems and security risks. For example, spoofed e-mail may purport to be from someone in a position of authority, asking for sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card numbers, or other personal information -- any of which can be used for a variety of criminal purposes. The Bank of America, eBay, and Wells Fargo are among the companies recently spoofed in mass spam mailings. One type of e-mail spoofing, self-sending spam, involves messages that appear to be both to and from the recipient.

Answer 5

Spammers use valid e-mail addresses to hide their own location. Sounds like a spammer is abusing yours. Nothing you can do about it, unfortunately.



But if they're in your Sent items it's also possible you've been infected with a virus sent via MSN messenger. Scan your computer using an online virusscanner.

Answer 6

This sounds like it could be a malicious attack. Someone may have hacked into your computer. This happened to me once and i had to use the method below. I had to reboot my computer after sweeping the virus off and restore to an earlier date. This article will give you the steps. Remember to also change any passwords for online banking etc.

Answer 7

Contact Hotmail, it sounds like spammers have hacked your online mail password.



It may be a v irus on your computer, but typically spam mail viruses use their own SMTP engine and don't leave a trace in your Sent Mail.



Run a complete virus/trojan scan of your machine to be sure.



First download the following (if the virus is blocking your internet, you may have to download these on another machine and burn to CD or copy to a USB memory stick)



Malwarebytes: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php



Superantispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html



CCleaner (cleans out caches) http://www.ccleaner.com



Avast! 4 Home: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html



Now, start the machine in Safe Mode (hit the F8 function key as the machine boots up, and choose Safe mode)



Turn off System Restore on your machine, but only until you get this fixed - many of these trojans get copied into the System Restore files, which anti-virus programs aren't allowed to touch and the viruses could reinstall themselves from there. My Computer > Properties > System Restore.



Then run Malwarebytes, and clean everything it says



Then run CCleaner



Then run Avast - If a virus infection is persistent, use Avast to do a boot-scan - click on "schedule boot-scan" and restart the computer



Then run Superantispyware



Then turn System Restore back on.



Now install the antivirus program and antispyware program of your choice to do continuous scanning, and make sure you keep it up to date.



Always keep your Windows, web browser and Java software up to date - frequent patches are released to plug security holes.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/149298/10_quick_fixes_for_the_worst_security_nightmares.html

Answer 8

I have never encountered a virus like that but I have heard of those viruses that you get in your inbox and if you open they e-mail everyone on your list. I never open any mail unless I know who it is from. Hopefully you remember your contact's emails. Good luck!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

most likely someone sent you a bugged file which hacked your internet you should run a virus s can on your computer before it spreads.

Answer 11

i would of thought it was a virus because the same thing happened to a close friend of mine.



hope this helps :D



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Answer 12

Smell like a scam. No doubt about it. Ignore the e-mail and mark it as spam. Don't even dare write back to the sender.

Answer 13

this is like virus , heard this from some else too. it spreads to everyone on your msn contact then from their's too

Answer 14

Yep sounds like they have hacked your pc

Answer 15

your email is hacked by some your friend our your nearest one

dont use that id again and create new one simple!

Answer 16

looks like a virus.

Answer 17

change you password! problem fixed!

contact are gone because someone deleted them!

add them back if they're in your sent!

If there not you won't be getting them back!

Answer 18

it sounds like a virus to me.

Answer 19

Your email is definetely hacked!

Answer 20

It a trojan. virus