I had a worm virus in my Hotmail - do I need an antivirus for my Macbook to clear it

[Latafat]

In the most recent few days my Hotmail account was hijacked and emails were sent to my complete address book surround a malicious link. These worm viruses eliminated my contacts and changed junk email filter settings etc. I have comprise a innovative macbook which as far as I am aware does not have several antivirus software: determine to this worm virus have infected my system. Do I necessitate running an antivirus to clear it from my hotmail. Am I tranquil sharing my hotmail account by means of the spammer. If I do necessitate doing several of the above, which software be supposed to I utilize. Is several of it free of charge. Apologies if a numeral of of my questions are stupid I am not extremely familiar with it.

[Candace]

I have the similar opinion there is not too much to be anxious by means of a virus attacking a Mac. I practically dip excavation in a virus on windows to observe what occurs. It’s presently that a Virus on Windows systems is developed in a dissimilar language then Mac. Mac's are Objective-C programming at the same time as programming for Windows is C Sharp. So if you commence a virus from Windows to Mac the language determine to not understand it. On the other hand that is immediately my opinion and not a fact I imagine.

[Paisley007]

On Sunday an email by means of a link to a porn site was sent from my hotmail account to the entire the contacts I had in that account. I would merely been using this laptop for a small number of days (it's my previous one, my Dell died) and did not have encompass several antivirus software running, additional than did have the windows firewall up. I have in view of the fact that downloaded and run AVG and Avast antivirus software and SpybotS&D additional than they did not discover no matter which nasty. Do I definitely have encompassed a virus. Why has not a comparable thing occurred to the additional hotmail accounts I have been using on this laptop. Hotmail hold up or support gave me a attractive standard "change password, bring up to date antivirus software" response.

[addie]

I would read a number of posts regarding spoofing email addresses additional than might not recognize how my contacts register had been acquired - except the email actually did come from my account. I might not answer your query for the reason that I do not sit next to you and watch the whole thing you do. Maybe if you read this article written by Columnist Leo Notenboom, it might bring back some recollections of what you might comprise completed.

[MaCiNToSHeR]

OK, so you are suggesting I opened a spammer's connection and as I was logged in to hotmail, it was capable to capture the entire my contact email addresses. And then they were emailed using a spoof of my email address. Is it probable to incarcerate the contact details without downloading a virus (as AVG and AVAST recommend) or must a virus encompass been downloaded from the spam site, additional than for a number of reason AVG and AVAST cannot detect it. "Is it probable to capture the contact details exclusive of downloading a virus (as AVG and AVAST recommend). Or must a virus encompass been downloaded from the spam site, additional than for some reason AVG and AVAST cannot detect it" Moreover of those ways is an opportunity. If your virus scans are up to date then the majority probable the contacts were snagged without a virus or sometime previous to.

[Balamani]

It's terrifying to be familiar with that details be able to be captured without downloading a virus. Certainly if this is the case you be supposed to by no means have additional than one internet window up at the similar time - in case one site is capturing personal details from the additional. For what it's worth, I have by no means emailed a couple of the contacts, so the particulars must have come out of hotmail, not via an intercepted email or impressive. I guess I am immediately trying to run out if it's safe to utilize this laptop for things similar to online banking. Several thoughts on the method to proceed.