spam from my hotmail

[jno]

some blighter's got into my hotmail account and sent out a spam mail to everyone in there (I deliberately don't keep a contact list so the spam's gone to anyone who's sent me an email that I've kept). Is this likely to be a one-off or do I need to do anything to stop it happening again?

[Lil O'lady]

I think your safest option is to abandon the account, delete it if you can, and start again with a more secure password. It is inconvenient in that you will have to let your contacts know your new email address.

[jno]

I'd like to try resetting my password on my present account, but how?? It says to go to Password Reset Information - but there's no such thing visible on the home page or the inbox page

[BillySugger]

From Hotmail select options then 'view & edit personal information' under 'manage your account' it will ask for your password again then amongst your info you will see 'password ******* change' (in blue). & there you go

[jno]

great - thanks very much.