897tgigvib
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BobM, actually sounds like hackers were using your computer to send out spam email with highly loaded email, videos and stuff. They can do that these days, but usually it's just with text email that is low on the kilobytes so you don't even notice. Once your ip address shifts you are off it, and things are back to normal...for awhile, then they find it again and repeat the process.
That happened to my boss, but not so bad. He had to make new email addresses, could not even get to his old email, so had to call them on the phone and do a rigamarroll to get his old email address closed. He did find that it was being done remotely from Vietnam.
Course, I don't know if that's what happened to you. Might want to look around your email settings to see if any of your addresses were used to open other new email addresses as linked sites. For example, a new lycos account opened using a yahoo email as the confirm, that kind of thing.
They do not usually do it in a way that noticeably slows you down.
That happened to my boss, but not so bad. He had to make new email addresses, could not even get to his old email, so had to call them on the phone and do a rigamarroll to get his old email address closed. He did find that it was being done remotely from Vietnam.
Course, I don't know if that's what happened to you. Might want to look around your email settings to see if any of your addresses were used to open other new email addresses as linked sites. For example, a new lycos account opened using a yahoo email as the confirm, that kind of thing.
They do not usually do it in a way that noticeably slows you down.
