If you are still getting all the emails from real estate to Canadian pharmacies or friends say they are getting those same emails from you, it's likely not your computer being hacked, but your email service provider such as hotmail or gmail by guessing your email address & password. The hackers have software that will retrieve your email address from another victim and run password cracker programs to guess your password. From there they look into your sent and deleted folders for addresses you sent message to. When passwords are being set for an email acct., it's much better to choose something cryptic, using numbers and uppercase characters, etc. If the password is in the dictionary or a variation of an actual word, it's not a good password.
I found this to be good information when patrons are setting up email accts. or changing their passwords and think the simplest or shortest PW is the best.
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