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Hey,

Apparantly someone logged into my hotmail last night at 3am, a friend told me and pasted the conversation; nothing interesting the person posing as me SAID one word. I was just WONDERING what I should do now? Everything is in my email account, every ONLINE service I use. The worst thing is my address.

I've ran a virus scan using Avast - no infected files. I use Windows XP SP3, Windows firewall and Avast free edition - I keep all my software up-to-date.

I also have a laptop that runs Ubuntu 10.10 - I'm pretty sure linux is safe by design HOWEVER I do also have a firewall and am currently running a virus scan on that as well.

The only thing is when my friend pasted the conversation - the screen name also had my surname and I use only my first name for any TYPE of chat client. The person was using profile picture though.

Any advice would be great.
Thanks.Change your password.I've just changed it. Would it really make a difference though - if someone's already had free access to my email (could have already saved them etc)?



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