Hello,

I think my account has been hijacked and is being used to send spam from my vacation auto reply.  It frirst began sending spam messages to my contacts a few months ago.  I deleted all my contacts thinking that it could not send if there were no contact addresses. It now trys sending them to all kinds of random contacts as far as I can tell.  I clear the message and shut off the auto reply only to have it instantly re-set again.  I've changed my password etc. to no avail.  Other than cancelling my hotmail account is ther anything I can do to stop this?  The account is essentially useless at this point.

Fishhugger, I've moved your post to the Accounts and Passwords forum.

We've determined that malware is the cause of this issue. I suggest that you visit our solution post on this and follow the steps outlined in it to secure your account. Here's the link:

http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/safety/archive/2009/04/29/recent-reports-of-account-hijacks.aspx