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Spam being sent from me?
Wezoin
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Just checked my ISP provided email, it has over 100 failure/blocked by spam filter notices in the last 3 hours. I did not send a single one of these emails. Any idea whats happening? How do I stop it? looking at them they seem to be for everything from fake rolexes to fake louis viton purses.
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If it doesn't stop, it may actually be SPAM that was cleverly crafted to look like a failure notice that came from you (but it actually came from someone else, who used various stealthy ways to make the E-Mail look like it came from your ISP so you'll read it)... I've seen that before. There's probably a lot of different possibilities, but that's one I've run across personally.
If it's something like that someone discovered your account info and is using it to send spam, I imagine changing the password to something secure would stop it.
1. It is trivially easy to forge a return address on an email, and spammers do it pretty much consistently. They scrape the Web and other people's address books and their send-to lists for addresses, and then they just pick some at random and use them as the return address. When I say "trivially easy," I mean that you can open a command prompt, type "telnet some.server.com 25" and then type a few lines and you can have email look like it comes from whomever you want. Likely you were just another random victim of this.
2. It's possible that some spyware on your computer had legitimately sent a bunch of spam from your computer. However, this is about 1% as likely as the above scenario.
Run the spyware check again, remove it all, in safe mode. Then change your password. If it was spyware that was doing it and you changed your password while it was on your machine then they most likely have that one too.
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You can't - it's got nothing to do with you.
Typically, I've seen it go away after a week or so as the spambot hosts are blocked or taken off-line.
Every "easy" technical fix breaks some important aspect of e-mail that we rely on for important things. If it's not being able to send email on the road, it's mailing lists and stuff like that. There's nothing you can do about it. Try training your bayesian filter better, this usually catches 99% of my fake non-deliverable messages, and surprisingly it lets real ones through.