Can someone hack into your emal?
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| Holly: I had this happen to me several weeks ago. Someone must have connected to my address to send out spam. I kept getting all these bounced e-mails that I never sent. I simply ruled them as "junk" mail, they went into that folder & eventually they stopped showing up all together. |
| What type of email client are you using? AOL, gmail, Outlook Express?
I don't know much about it but I get email from addresses that look like some of mine when in fact they really aren't. If you use Outlook Express, you can view the "properties" details of the email to view the return path to see if you actually sent it our if it was just made to look like you did. You might be able to do this with other accounts too. Example of first couple of lines... Return-Path: :sender@-----.com Delivered-To: myserver:me@----.com I can't really advise you because I'm not a computer guru but since you're also having computer symptoms, I'd do a system restore to a previous date, then do a full virus scan and also a scan with a program like Ad-Aware and Spybot. If your mail comes from a server that you control settings on, you may have a junk filter you can set. It seems to take a bit for new forms of spam to be recognized and doesn't often find everything. |
| I agree to run spyware scans, that's what it sounds like to me or some sort of a virus. |
| I would run some virus / spyware software for sure but keep in mind that malicious people can really specify any "from" email address when sending mail. They don't need to be able to hack into your particular account to do that. |
| I would run your antivirus scan, but you should be aware that lots of viruses disable antivirus software once they have successfully invaded your system. I wouldn't run to a restore point, as the virus might not have infected the restore system files and may not do so unless you restore.
What others have said about email return addresses is accurate. I used to have great fun sending emails to friends with a return address of @ whitehouse.gov back in the early 90's, well before the Patriot Act. You need help from your local 15 year old guru to get you through this, assuming you've been infected and your antivirus can't eliminate the problem. |
and don't forget if you are forwarding something... PLEASE remove all other addresses before sending  |
| I've been getting at least one or two a day saying I requested a reset for my windows live password (which I did not) so I'm kind of concerned about that. Anyone else getting something similar? |
| It sounds like you have a Trojan on your PC or PC's
The most surefire way of removing such nasties is to rebuild your PC from scratch not something most people want to do. You could try an alternate anti virus software one of the stand alone tools to asses the state of your system something like http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ you can try the various online scanners to tell you if your system is infected. * http://housecall.trendmicro.com * www.pandasoftware.com/activescan * www.bitdefender.co.uk/scan_uk/scan8/ie.html These do no kill the virus but make you aware of them. The virus may have already disabled your antivirus software Good luck |
| My son, a software programmer, has me do a weekly scan using Spybot Search and Destroy. It's a freebie. It catches things that my regular antivirus software misses.
The Windows Messenger email was part of a phising scam, so don't click on it. |
| My favorite and easiest way to scan my computer is with this free website: www.kaspersky.com
Under Home Users there are a couple of options you can use - this is the link to the scanner. http://www.kaspersky.com/kos/eng/partne ... 1920552156 I had a trojan horse virus that three other programs could tell was a problem but not where it was - it was coded so hard that it was bypassing all of their updates. Kaspersky found it and I got rid of it - that was after several blue screen warnings so I was close to total death! I still run all of my anti-virus software, and use this website a couple times a month as well. |
| When I e-mail coming to me from me (that I didn't send)
I ran a virus scan on my computer and found nothing. Then I stared to get spam email with addresses that I knew. It ended up that one of my friends had a virus on their computer and was sending out spam from address in their address book. Once they removed the virus from their system, it stopped. |
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