Guest phil Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox, for mail I never sent. What do I do ? Thanks Quote
Guest David H. Lipman Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 From: "phil" <pvandermeeren0522xyz@yrogers.com> | This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox, | for mail I never sent. | What do I do ? | Thanks Not much. Your email address was harvested and it is being used as the sender of spam or malware. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp Quote
Guest Malke Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 phil wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox, > for mail I never sent. > > What do I do ?</span> There's nothing you can do except make sure your computer is virus/malware-free. This sort of thing is normally caused by: 1. Your computer is infected and is spewing spam. Of course some of those spam emails will be sent to the wrong address so will get bounced back to you. 2. Someone else has your email address and their computer is infected and is spewing spam. 3. You replied to a public newsgroup, mailing list, signed up for something, etc. and your email address has been captured by a spammer. If your computer is completely clean (which you will check by going through the steps at the link below), then all you can do is wait it out and/or abandon that email address and use another one. http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2....emoving_Malware Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ Quote
Guest phil Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 Thanks Malke, I am absolutely sure my computer is clean. It`s uptodate with the latest microsoft updates and I never visit suspected websites. My firewalls are always on. Thanks for your reply. I will change my email address. Greetings "Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:%237eCGYm6IHA.1468@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> > phil wrote: ><span style="color:green"> >> This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my >> inbox, >> for mail I never sent. >> >> What do I do ?</span> > > There's nothing you can do except make sure your computer is > virus/malware-free. This sort of thing is normally caused by: > > 1. Your computer is infected and is spewing spam. Of course some of those > spam emails will be sent to the wrong address so will get bounced back to > you. > > 2. Someone else has your email address and their computer is infected and > is > spewing spam. > > 3. You replied to a public newsgroup, mailing list, signed up for > something, > etc. and your email address has been captured by a spammer. > > If your computer is completely clean (which you will check by going > through > the steps at the link below), then all you can do is wait it out and/or > abandon that email address and use another one. > > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2....emoving_Malware > > Malke > -- > MS-MVP > Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! > FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ > </span> Quote
Guest VanguardLH Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 phil wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > I will change my email address.</span> Then later when another spammer claims your new e-mail address as their own, are you going to change your e-mail address again? And next time change again? And again? Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 Delete them. You might want to see if there are any commonalities you could use to filter them. I think you can expect more and more since it appears you have had your email address harvested by some worm program. Sometimes there are enough of these to cause problems with your ISP mailbox quota. "phil" <pvandermeeren0522xyz@yrogers.com> wrote in message news:OdCQANm6IHA.1428@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> > This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox, > for mail I never sent. > > What do I do ? > > Thanks > </span> Quote
Guest Malke Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 VanguardLH wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > phil wrote: > <span style="color:green"> >> I will change my email address.</span> > > Then later when another spammer claims your new e-mail address as their > own, are you going to change your e-mail address again? And next time > change again? And again?</span> Not necessary if the OP is judicious about how he uses the new address. It is always a good idea to have one or two "junk" addresses and only give the "good" ones to a select few. Nothing is 100% sure in life of course, but this works very well for me. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ Quote
Guest John Posted July 21, 2008 Posted July 21, 2008 You may be able to create a rule to redirect those bounce mail (NDRs) to junk folder or to automatically delete them. The problem is that it'll also delete your legitimate NDR. For example: when you mistype an email address, you may not know your email bounces if there's a rule to auto delete NDR. "phil" <pvandermeeren0522xyz@yrogers.com> wrote in message news:OdCQANm6IHA.1428@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> > This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox, > for mail I never sent. > > What do I do ? > > Thanks > </span> Quote
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