Guest JoyDee Posted April 15, 2008 Posted April 15, 2008 My email box is loaded with "Returned and Undelivarable Messages" using my email address as the sender. Some are in foreign languages. How can I prevent someone from using my emaill address to send out mass spam email? My anti-virus and spyware programs do not seem to help. Quote
Guest Allan Posted April 15, 2008 Posted April 15, 2008 "JoyDee" <JoyDee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1C912861-46B4-4075-9B95-71136A4D1D2C@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > My email box is loaded with "Returned and Undelivarable Messages" using my > email address as the sender. Some are in foreign languages. How can I > prevent someone from using my emaill address to send out mass spam email? > My > anti-virus and spyware programs do not seem to help.</span> Have you tried changing the password for the email account? It may be saved in your email client also. -- Allan Quote
Guest Leonard Agoado Posted April 15, 2008 Posted April 15, 2008 "JoyDee" <JoyDee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1C912861-46B4-4075-9B95-71136A4D1D2C@microsoft.com... <span style="color:blue"> > My email box is loaded with "Returned and Undelivarable > Messages" using my > email address as the sender. Some are in foreign languages. > How can I > prevent someone from using my emaill address to send out mass > spam email?</span> You cannot. This is no different than someone putting your return address on an envelope and dropping it in a postal box. If it gets 'returned to sender' it's headed to you. <span style="color:blue"> > My anti-virus and spyware programs do not seem to help.</span> That's because the problem does not reside on your machine. Your delete key is your best tool. Len Agoado agoado@msn.com Quote
Guest Malke Posted April 15, 2008 Posted April 15, 2008 JoyDee wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > My email box is loaded with "Returned and Undelivarable Messages" using my > email address as the sender. Some are in foreign languages. How can I > prevent someone from using my emaill address to send out mass spam email? > My anti-virus and spyware programs do not seem to help.</span> You can't. A spammer might have gotten your address because your email address is in a friend's addressbook on the friend's infected computer. Or you might have clicked on a spam message (sending an "unsubscribe" message to a spammer just lets them know they have a live email address). Or you may have given your email address to a company without a good privacy policy, or an evil company that lied about their privacy policy. Your own computer might even be infected and now the spammers have your address. All you can do is: 1. Make sure your computer is virus/malware-free so you know you're not guilty of sending spam. http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2....emoving_Malware 2. Get rid of that email address and be more judicious about giving out a new one. Use a "throwaway" free email account for junk. 3. Use spam filtering, both at the web server and at your email client if you use one. You don't usually have any control over the spam filtering done on your web server except to turn it on and possibly have white/black lists. Here are some links to help you understand spam and what you can do to limit your exposure to it: http://www.spamlaws.com/ http://www.mall-net.com/spamfaq.html General Internet security links that are aimed at end users - use their Search capability to look for articles on those sites about spam since there are many useful ones: http://www.getsafeonline.org/ https://www.mysecurecyberspace.com/ http://www.getnetwise.org/ HTH, Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! Quote
Guest Mick Murphy Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Spam bots come here; you supplied YOUR email address to them, lol! -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Leonard Agoado" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > > "JoyDee" <JoyDee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:1C912861-46B4-4075-9B95-71136A4D1D2C@microsoft.com... > > <span style="color:green"> > > My email box is loaded with "Returned and Undelivarable > > Messages" using my > > email address as the sender. Some are in foreign languages. > > How can I > > prevent someone from using my emaill address to send out mass > > spam email?</span> > > You cannot. This is no different than someone putting your > return address on an envelope and dropping it in a postal box. > If it gets 'returned to sender' it's headed to you. > > <span style="color:green"> > > My anti-virus and spyware programs do not seem to help.</span> > > That's because the problem does not reside on your machine. Your > delete key is your best tool. > > > Len Agoado > agoado@msn.com > > > > > > </span> Quote
Guest Leonard Agoado Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 "Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:18AEA9AA-1B9C-4FCD-BF55-A2AC46747131@microsoft.com... <span style="color:blue"> > Spam bots come here; you supplied YOUR email address to them, > lol!</span> Mick, Well, yes and no. My understanding is that bots generally harvest from message header fields, not text bodies. All that obfuscation of email addresses in the message body is a cute trend with little benefit other than the appearance to the uninformed that the poster knows something. In any event, I used to munge my address and finally quit. I've posted this way for years and have never found spam to be a major problem. Regards, Len Agoado agoado@msn.com Quote
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