Shoutbox

Ok, I am sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, but this is really bugging me and I am new to this forum. The other day, I got an IM from a contact (my mother) and it was a link to something like buddypics.com or something similar. Like an idiot, I thought she was sending me a link to some pictures she uploaded. I tried to login in to the site and couldn't get in. Now, every so often I will get an IM from somebody offline to some weird website (i.e., nice.checkbiz.info or something similar). I changed my Windows Live password, but still get these messages. I ran a virus/spyware scan and can't figure out what is going on. Does anyone have an idea of what this is or how do fix it?

thanks.

Tell all contacts that send you those messages to change THEIR passwords. The website you tried to log in to (and your contacts) steals your username and password and logs in to send "Spam" or malicious messages. Usually the contact is not aware of this and seeing as your contacts are offline when they send these, I would say a bot logs in and sends it when it knows thinks they aren't online.

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