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contacts in hotmail being spammed

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Geoff-canada
August 31, 2011, 12:39 AM UTC
Hi there

I appear to have had my email account comprised as it started spamming emails out to all contacts. The email accout has since been suspended but i suspect I have something malicious on my machine. I ran malwarebytes and it found and cleaned this

Registry Data Items Infected:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\control panel\Homepage (PUM.Hijack.HomePageControl) -> Bad: (1) Good: (0) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Just want to confirm i am not still infected with anything.

Thanks
NonSuch Administrator
August 31, 2011, 1:13 AM UTC

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