Gmail problem.

[birdy]

I have a gmail account for private email, and discovered this evening it send emails, I think the term is hijacked, to some of my contacts. What does this mean, am not too well up on this kind of thing. Does this mean I have a virus & will I be able to use the email account.

 

[Squonk]

My gmail account was hijacked about a year ago. What I did was simply change my password to something complex with numbers and symbols and that sorted it.

 

[Deas]

There was advice a couple of weeks ago to all gmail account holders to change passwords as there had been a security breach.

 

[birdy]

Reset my password so hopefully it won't happen. It was a bit embarrassing when friends were calling to let me know they had got mad emails from me

 

[DaveyByrne]

If you are using Gmail via the web, this should be fine... but if you are using Gmail through another email client (such as Outlook) you possibly have a virus on your local PC...