Rogue third party emailers

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From: Rick (malanchu_at_concentric.net)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:55:34 -0800

I believe that an unauthorized third party spammer has or
spammers have enabled themselves to send their spam
emails to others using my email address as the sender.
The reasons I beleive this are:
1. I occasionally receive email from my own email
address, eve though I did not send it. When I opened one
(the first time or two - I just delete them now) I
realized that another sender was somehow routing the spam
through my computer to other people, and the "from" line
on their computers would show my email address.
2. While on line I occasionally experience my Norton
anti-virus screen popping up and indicating that it is
checking my outgoing email for viruses, when I hadn;t
sent any email out for hours.
3. I occasionally get a message that my email didn't go
through, when I hadn't sent an email for hours. On
checking I determine that the invalid adress was not one
that I had sent to. Moreover, clickable attachments
sometimes appear, although I know better than to open any
of them.
4. Any suggestions out there on how I can expunge these
rogue spammers from setting up shop on my hard drive?
Thank you.

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