Hotmail Virus sending me spam from my own email

Anonymous
2013-11-11T20:47:43+00:00

I seem to have a Virus in my email that is sending me spam emails from my own email address.

I use a chrome book so it doesn't have anti virus to sweep with.

I can't block the emails as they are from myself and hotmail says i am in my own contacts.  I have changed my email password and there are no forwarding addresses but it is still happening.

What should I do?

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  1. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
    2017-06-23T03:22:16+00:00

    > There has to be another way they are able to send us an email incognito

    > posing under our own email address?

    Very easy to do.

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  2. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
    2017-06-23T03:21:31+00:00

    Now you've changed what you said before,

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-06-23T03:16:17+00:00

    The only way I've been able to handle this is to check those spam-to-yourself emails as a phishing scam. Eventually, I stopped getting more than one a month. Very annoying.

    If I get any unrecognized emails, I send them to junk and hover over them to see what actual email address they came from. If they don't look right, I mark them as phishing scams. Used to be able to do that on the primary email page, but Outlook changed and won't let me do that anymore.

    All this takes time, but it's better than getting hacked....

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-06-22T17:08:01+00:00

    Actually that is incorrect.  They should stop allowing non microsoft mail servers sending email sourced with a microsoft mail address. 

    It would not prevent legitimate mail from being sent and received.

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  5. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
    2017-06-22T15:16:09+00:00

    > They can stop someone spoofing email to a MSFT mail server by preventing

    > a MSFT email being the source. 

    If they did that, then no Microsoft address would ever be able to send mail to another Microsoft address.

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