Un-Commanded Emails

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Cagster

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Recently I got an email from my brother stating that he is receiving email from my account. (details below)

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Removed content of email including email addresses and names.

I have also noticed that every now and then there is email saying "failed delivery". I have run Spybot and nothing was reported. i also ran Spyware Doctor and had a few infections, nothing major though.

Is there something else I should be running or looking at to stop the sending of emails?

Thanks
Chuck
 
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Hello Cagster,

One way spammers can harvest email addresses is when such are posted so that has been removed. ;)
Cagster said:
I have also noticed that every now and then there is email saying "failed delivery".
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That in itself does not mean much, we may all receive a failed delivery on occasion.
Cagster said:
Is there something else I should be running or looking at to stop the sending of emails?
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As a first measure change the password to your email account. :)

Has anyone else informed you that they are receiving emails you know you did not send and is the content spam?

Best regards.
 
No one else that I know of has received an email like that. I will say that I have received emails like that but typically look at the properties before I open them up. As far as the email failure I talked about, it was basically an email that I supposedly sent out to someone else that have a hotmail, gmail, yahoo account that I do not even have in my address book.
 
Hello Cagster,

The location of the IP in the email header is Seznam.cz
You can look it up at http://www.projecthoneypot.org
tashi said:
As a first measure change the password to your email account. :)
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What is your operating system, do you have an anti-virus program installed and how is the computer running in general?

Best regards.
 
I am running Win 7, 64bit, Norton Internet Security/AV and I havent noticed any slowdown or anything like that. By the way, I have changed my Outlook mail account pw.

Chuck
 
Hi there,

If you do experience more email issues that concern you someone can take a look at the system.

Just post here in your thread and we will go from there. :)

Best regards. :greeting:
 
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