Spam Emails - All Please Read

[deadone]

hi all, over the last few days i have had a few people email/message me regarding emails i have sent with no text just links.. please NO ONE click any of the links in these emails as they did not come from me and i have no idea what might be hidden in them.. my antivirus and firewall are running and have found nothing suspicious..
fyi im using eset not32 smart security and fully updated. also scanned with various malwa\re progs and all is clean

I normally get a few of bounced messages for spam/viruses that I didn't send b/c people are spoofing my email address (as is common these days, esp. if you run a website, as I do.
as you can tell if its coming from your pc as nothing is in my sent folder..

i have no idea how this is happening but if the problem persisits i would appreciate you inform me asap that you are still recieving them and i will change my email address.

so if your one of the recipitents of the spam from me im sorry but its not me sending them.

Mick

[Fadingtoblack]

I had this issue on my Hotmail account. I'm not exactly sure, but I think it was from entering my details somewhere I maybe shouldn't have...


I found that changing my email passwords and doing all the computer cleanup stuff you've done (virus, spyware etc) solved the problem, and I haven't had the issue since

[deadone]

well i dont add my info on any site unless its a trusty one so cant be that..
as for my password etc i have just gone and changed it to a new 1 so well see how it goes.

Mick

[Fadingtoblack]

Well I suppose it's possible it could've been hacked, or the result of a virus/spyware or something....

Just see how it goes yeah. I remember the first I knew about it was people emailing me that I was spamming them, and getting a who bunch of bounced email notifications...
It's happened to a few of my contacts too, so I don't know if it's a hotmail thing or something more widespread.


Sending out a big apology email wasn't fun agh

[forka2k]

Hey Mick, I have similar problem a few years back and changeing the password solved the problem

[unforgiv3n82]

Hey Mick, I have similar problem a few years back and changeing the password solved the problem

Me too, that virus was particulary annoying, it was spread over MSN mainly, really nasty. But as the guys already said you only need to change your password, and problem solved.

Cheers

[MetDream]

Hey Mick, I have similar problem a few years back and changeing the password solved the problem

Ditto. That happened a couple months ago to me.

[deadone]

thanx all.. hopefully it will stop now my pass has been changed.. im also going to send out a mass email to my contacts list with the same message as not all my contacts are registered here on metpage so you might get the same message as posted here in your inbox over the weekend.

thanx
Mick