Re: stealing e-mail for spamming

From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_REMOVEprodigy.net)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:44:33 -0700

Those can be one of 4 things:
1) Some spammer is sending the original messages and using your e-mail address as the
sender.
2) Someone else has a PC infected with a virus and the virus is sending itself as the
original message and using your e-mail address as the sender.
3) The message is the virus itself, pretending to be a returned mail.
4) Your PC is infected with a virus and it has been sending itself. And this is really a
returned mail that your PC sent.

In cases 1, 2, and 3 above, the messages are not coming from your PC and are not going
through your e-mail account. There's nothing you can do to prevent anyone from sending an
e-mail with your e-mail address as the From header, just as you can't prevent anyone from
sending a postal mail and putting your name and address as the return address. At this
point all you can do is filter out the messages. Your ISP may offer some filtering at the
mail server.

To make sure that case 4 above is not the cause, you should check your PC with an updated
anti-virus program. 

-- 
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"William Bab***" <wa4lrm@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:eEHEC0bdEHA.2544@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I have noticed someone have been stealing my e-mail address for spamming. I
> have been getting bounced from people that I did not send, violation from
> people I did not send or bounced as spam. I have seen spam message with my
> e-mail address on From. It may happen to several others. This is like
> stealing identity. You can change password and it will not prevent this. Can
> you tell me how to make my e-mail more secured?
>
> -- 
> ************** BILL **************
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>
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