How can I stop spam emails coming from my email address?
Well the best way to fight spam is not opening the messages, not even with the preview. Spam messages report the spammer when opened and it shows him that the address is still in use so he will bomb your email with lots and lots of spam. Try flagging them and/or marking them as spam if you have them in your inbox. Delete them right after. Never open spam or suspicious messages that you know you will never recieve and/or you are not expecting. Try also increasing safety features. Spam is a headache to everyone this days but this is the only way to fight against them. I also have the same trouble! Good Luck.
Yes, that person who said you have been infected and need to scan is right but you should be able to get away with not needing to reinstall the operating system. Go to here and work right through the guide – if the spam hasn’t stopped by the time you have done all the cleaning work, then you can continue on in the guide and get help in posting to the forum for more help: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.… The guide uses Malwarebytes, SUPERAntiSpyware and ComboFix – each of those are excellent programs. I recommend you get onto it straight away and/or use a firewall to block your email program from being able to send emails for now. This will help protect you from getting your email address put on a banned list by some companies until you can get the problem sorted out.
Jo- Stevic is right; virus’s typically infect a victim, then send themselves to everyone in your mail address book. This has been a virus behavior of attachments that get opened. Do some serious scans and clean up your system. In the future, Never open attachments. From anyone. And don’t get your friends in the habit of opening attachments from you. Get a website (plenty of free ones available) and post anything you’d normally attach there; then send the URL to your associate for them to see whatever it is. Opening attachments is at best a 50/50 chance of it being what you expect.
