email account spammed/hacked?

[ArmageddonOuttaHere]

hi, basically i woke up to a few emails from mailer-daemon with message send failure. my friend had this before but he was also tweeting spam on his twitter account wheras mine is just my emails at the moment. I only use this email on trustworthy sites like facebook, youtube and xbox. i dont use dodgy websites and i never click any ads or whatever. the only thing i can think of is that i accidently clicked a link from from a fbook page post (a 'bit' link). i looked at my recent yahoo activity and it was logged into from poland so its definately had something done to it. i have changed the password but is there anything else i should do?

thanks

[Nick]

If you don't have any other odd behavior going on in your email once you changed your password, then you should be fine. If not, I would go to a place like Best Buy and Geek Squad to help you with the hacks.

[jjj]

Hello, it you were indeed hacked then........................

Account hacked
Hackers, when they get into your system, like to change your settings, so change your password, run your antivirus and go to tools on it and have it clean system. Clean all cookies, (see below).Then start going through your account settings, all your folders, and filters. Also check your contacts and all the settings there. If you cannot receive any mails then on the inbox page on the upper right Go to gear icon click on it and choose messenger options, then privacy, uncheck box that says to block all users not in my contact list.

Check your email filters. You'll want to ensure that they haven’t been changed directing certain emails to an unexpected place. To view your filters, click the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the page, and select Mail Options from the menu that appears (in Mail Classic, this is Options | Mail Options). Then select Filters from the options on the left.

go to the gear icon on the top right of inbox page and click on it and choose mail options, check all the boxes there to see if any have been changed.

•Clearing cookies can fix issues related to: Sign-in problems, like not being able to sign-in, not being able to stay signed-in, and error messages about setting your user cookie.
•Clearing cache can fix issues related to: Browser never finishes loading page, page hangs or freezes, seeing old page content, and online applications (like games) not responding


Resolution
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer by your browser to customize what you see on a webpage. The cache is website information that is stored on your computer, so webpages will load faster. Clearing your cache and cookies can help resolve many browser functionality issues.
Resolution if you are running IE 7.0
* IE 7.0:
Operating system:
- Windows XP
1.Select Tools | Internet Options.
2.Select the General tab.
3.Under "Browsing history," click Delete.
4.Click Delete files and then click Yes to confirm the deletion.
5.Click Delete cookies and then click Yes.
6.Click Close to close the "Delete Browsing History" dialog box.
7.Click OK to close the "Internet Options" window.
8.Close and restart your browser.

If you are running a different system follow the basic steps above