Prevent the sendout spam using my email address

De :  Allen

 

My email box is full of "returned and Undelivarable Messages" using my e-mail address as sender.  Some are in foreign languages.  How can I stop someone from using my email address to send mass spam e-mail? My antivirus programs and spyware do not seem to help.

De :  Malke

 

You can not. A spammer would have got your address because your email address is in the address book a friend on the computer infected friend. Or could have clicked on a spam message (sending that message "unsubscribe" to a spammer allows them just to know that they have a direct email address). Or maybe you gave your email address to a company without a good privacy statement or an evil that lied about their privacy policy. Your computer is perhaps even infected and spammers now have your address.

All you can do is:

1 make sure that your computer is free from virus/malware so that you know that you are not guilty of sending spam.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

2. get rid of this email address and make more sense to give a new. Use a "disposable" for spam free email account.

3. use filtering, both at the level of the web server in your mail client if you use an anti-spam. You have usually no control over the filtering of spam on your web server except to turn it on and possibly have white/black lists.

Here are some links to help you understand spam and what you can do to limit your exposure to it:

http://www.spamlaws.com/
http://www.Mall-NET.com/spamfaq.html

Weblinks of general security that are aimed at end users - use their research capacity to look for articles on websites talking about spam since there are lots of other useful:

http://www.getsafeonline.org/

https://www.mysecurecyberspace.com/
http://www.GetNetWise.org/

HTH,

Malke

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