seem to be sending out spam emails...

R

Roger Crain

hello all, over the last month I've discoverd that I am
recieving a lot of "message failed to deliver to
recipient" and other messages from email addresses that
I've never emailed anything to. what it seems like is that
my computer has been infected with an spam proxy server or
similar, and is sending out spam emails through my own
email address... I was wondering if anybody has an idea of
the cause of this, and what a solution might be. thanks,

~Roger
 
K

Kenneth

hello all, over the last month I've discoverd that I am
recieving a lot of "message failed to deliver to
recipient" and other messages from email addresses that
I've never emailed anything to. what it seems like is that
my computer has been infected with an spam proxy server or
similar, and is sending out spam emails through my own
email address... I was wondering if anybody has an idea of
the cause of this, and what a solution might be. thanks,

~Roger
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Hi Roger,

No expert I, but...

I believe that there are other possibilities:

Someone else may have the virus and may have your email address in
their address book. With that scenario, they can be "spamming" with
yours as the return address.

HTH,
 
G

Guest

ah! heh thats a much more feasable possibility...
unfortunately.. I'm not sure how I would go about fixing
that issue. :(
 
B

Brian Tillman

ah! heh thats a much more feasable possibility...
unfortunately.. I'm not sure how I would go about fixing
that issue. :(
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It's actually the likely explanation, and there is no way whatsoever to stop
it. It's someone else's machine tat's infected. You can't determine who
and you can't reach through the Internet and choke the life out of its owner
even if you could.
 
K

Kenneth

You can't determine who
and you can't reach through the Internet and choke the life out of its owner
even if you could.
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Ah, but we can dream Brian, we can dream...

All the best,
 
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