A few days ago I was having breakfast and watching tv on my Macbook as I have every morning for years while chatting with the family when I laughed at something and hit a glass of water and drenched my Macbook (yes, stupid me. I know…). Needless to say, it's toast (I'm having someone look at it anyway, though…). So, I fired up the old Windows computer, which was running as slow as molasses. I just thought I'd been babied by having a Mac, so I didn't really think much of it, but a couple days later, people started reporting to me that they were getting spam from my email address.
So, I changed my password using a different computer, turned off the Windows computer, etc.
Yesterday, another round of spam went out in my name… The only accounts signed into that account now that I've changed my password are my iPhone and iPad and my work computer, which has loads of spam protection from our IT guy. Neither mobile device is jailbroken or modified in any way, so I know they aren't the causes. What is going on? How can I stop spam from going to my contacts? Once is annoying, but twice is mortifying!
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