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LAS14

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Mon Jan 8, 2024, 08:06 AM Jan 2024

E-mail has been hijacked. [View all]

We discovered that hundreds of e-mails had been sent from one of our Outlook.com accounts (we have two in the house, and use each on separate computers.) We're prevented from sending e-mails because of a daily limit. Here are two screen shots of the Sent folder.

Today one new e-mail appeared in Sent at about the time we booted up the computer. We shut it down pretty quickly.

What should we do?

EDIT: In case anyone else is following this. We found messages in a backup gmail account that said that apps had been added to our Microsoft account. We removed the apps. We hope this has fixed it.

TIA
LAS

https://imgur.com/a/oeH8MKG

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E-mail has been hijacked. [View all] LAS14 Jan 2024 OP
You more than likely have a virus or malware. TwilightZone Jan 2024 #1
Some suggestions LPBBEAR Jan 2024 #2
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