Lynn :
I have received “mail delivery failures” and discovered that someone has used my e-mail address to send out spam. the delivery failures are coming back to me because my e-mail address is in the “from” line. I have run virusscan and spyware scan and found nothing. Does anyone know how to fix this or do I just have to change my e-mail address? I really don’t want to do that because I have had the same e-mail for 6-7 years. Thank you
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change your password!!!!!
thats a virus go here download the avg free antivirus and spyware remover update it and run it in safe
Hi!
First, change your e-mail password, to something like 123AbCde{]… to make it more difficult to break (crack). Secondly, if a trojan is installed on your computer, someone WILL be able to log in and send mail. If you use a POP3 connection (Outlook, etc), then again, someone WILL be able to send mail. Try securing your PC. A good idea is to increase security for your local area connection (if that is what you use) from firewall settings (aka Trusted area should not include LAN), since trojans ordinarily work across the LAN (local Area Network).
Also, contact your e-mail service provider (ie Yahoo!) and describe the problem. They may offer you further assistance.
Good luck!
i really don’t think just changing your password would work.. you need 2 have better protection on your comp.. updating your anti is very important,, and then run scan.. then change password.. which one would say 2 change it once a mo.. scaning about every few days or when you feel something is not right.. bummer eh..
Let me explain>>
Email address can be gusses easily and it is not a difficult to send email address using any one’s email address with any of the email programs like Outlook Express,2000.2002,2003.
The spammer’s do get the email address easily, it is the password which has to be protected strongly.
We need to use both the upper case and lower case letters, numbers and special characters to keep the password safe and unguessable which is the only case of providing spammer’s to use the email address.