I totally missed out on the fact that my anti-viral program had expired and 'acquired' some malware in the time it took me to install MS Security Essentials. However, since this time, I've had a couple of events which led me to suspect that damage
had already been done - not least of which is the fact that I now can't log in to my Windows Live Mail or Messenger. I simply get a message saying I can't be signed in because the service is 'temporarily unavailable' and an error code of 80070005.
Trying to check this out as a bit of a dummy, I just find myself going round in circles and am worried that I may delete something meaningful in my efforts to repair it. Can anyone help please?
For months I have been getting emails, allegedly from Hotmail such as the one below:
"....Due to increased spam and phishing activities globally, a DGTFX trojan virus has been detected in your windows live folders. Your email account will be upgraded with our new secure 1024-bit RSA key anti-virus firewall to prevent damage to our email servers and to your important files. Click your reply tab, fill the columns below and send back to us or your email account will be terminated to avoid spread of the virus..." and asking me to provide them with my user name, password, year of birth and country.
I have responded to each of these requests with an email asking for a letter request and/or refusing to provide them with my password etc.
I have never gotten a response - only these random emails...
Is this for real or is it a scam to hijack my account?
Thanks.
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