Email geek help

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:38 am

It seems something has hijacked my Outlook Express and is attempting to send Emails from my account.

I get failed attempt notices when it spams dead accounts.

I have Zone Alarm firewall, Norton's Antivirus and AdAware bot killer.

This is a new event and I have updated all programs, run them all and found only the typical cookies and trackers.

This bastard is still at it.

I shut off my Comcast modem to insure nothing is Emailed while I am not home.

WTF? Any ideas?

Post by **cwallace** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:58 am

Keeping it unhooked from the net will work pretty well...

Grab and run AVG antivirus from free.grisoft.com and it will get rid of stuff...

Make sure to grab the "FREE EDITION"...it is 100% FREE and works 100 times better than anything you will pay for...

Chris

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:01 am

Cool. Will try that.

I unhook from the net to prevent ANYTHING from going out.

Krieves · Post by **Krieves** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:38 am

I get messages from mail servers stating that my message could not be delivered. The kicker was that I never sent the email in the first place. It turns out that some @#$&ing spammer is spoofing my email address. Bastards!

Post by **cwallace** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:52 pm

Yeah...and make sure you aren't blacklisted if you have static IP addresses. I am constantly having to check that because of spoofing...

Chris