Re: Rogue third party emailers

From: John A (not_at_available.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 07:13:58 +1100

Suggest you discuss this issue with your ISP

John Allen

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:55:34 -0800, "Rick" <malanchu@concentric.net>
wrote:

>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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