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Hello. Spam messages appear to be going out from my OE account to a random
variety of addresses. The "From" part of the messages employ the second part of my e-mail address ) but the first part is usually just a jumble of random numbers. These messages are either going to random non-existent addresses or they are being blocked by spam filters. Either way they bounce back to me and I am sick of it. Is there any way I can stop these messages being sent? Also, I have been thinking of cancelling my OE account since I rarely use it for genuine mail (99% of my Inbox is spam) and I use a web-based e-mail program for most of my mail needs. How exactly do you cancel an OE account? Many thanks JOHN |
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You are not the source
someone who has your email address in their address book is infected and using randomly generated names based on domains in the address book, and your name as the reply to address there isnt much you can do about it -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "OldReuben" wrote in message ... Hello. Spam messages appear to be going out from my OE account to a random variety of addresses. The "From" part of the messages employ the second part of my e-mail address ) but the first part is usually just a jumble of random numbers. These messages are either going to random non-existent addresses or they are being blocked by spam filters. Either way they bounce back to me and I am sick of it. Is there any way I can stop these messages being sent? Also, I have been thinking of cancelling my OE account since I rarely use it for genuine mail (99% of my Inbox is spam) and I use a web-based e-mail program for most of my mail needs. How exactly do you cancel an OE account? Many thanks JOHN |
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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. As for Canceling an OE account, OE doesn't own accounts. It is merely a program for reading mail. If you have 2 different e-mail addresses (one that you've been reading via some web mail and one via OE), then contact the supplier of the mail account that you read via OE and see how you go about canceling that. Once you've done that either stop using OE, or if you want to continue to use it for newsgroups, then in Tools, Accounts, Mail Remove the mail account. In the latter case, you may want to run OE in a news-only mode Command Line Options for Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=177233 If you've been using OE to access the same e-mail address that you use via web mail, then there is nothing to cancel on the mail service side. Just remove the OE mail account as mentioned above. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "OldReuben" wrote in message ... Hello. Spam messages appear to be going out from my OE account to a random variety of addresses. The "From" part of the messages employ the second part of my e-mail address ) but the first part is usually just a jumble of random numbers. These messages are either going to random non-existent addresses or they are being blocked by spam filters. Either way they bounce back to me and I am sick of it. Is there any way I can stop these messages being sent? Also, I have been thinking of cancelling my OE account since I rarely use it for genuine mail (99% of my Inbox is spam) and I use a web-based program for most of my mail needs. How exactly do you cancel an OE account? Many thanks JOHN |
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