Email virus that sends emails to all of my contacts

These informations will help us to find the actual problem here. There are several caused for this type of behaviour:. Your email address has been used by spammers to send email as if sent from your address, usually accomplished by forging an emails headers with your address.

It does not necessarily mean it was sent from your Hotmail account and you won't be able to stop spammers from yusing your email address. This can occur from use of your real email address on the internet, in newsgroups, clicking on links in unsolicited email, clicking on a link to unsubscribe in an unsolicited email, etc.

Someone else's system with your email address in their address book was compromised and all other addresses was harvested by a virus or worm for use as sending spam. Your Hotmail account was compromised by a hacker. You can try changing the password. Then create a new email address, send all of the contacts that you want to keep, the new email address from a new location, do not send them from that compormised hotmail account.

Inform all from the contact list that you have got a new address and that the old one is no longer good, and ask them to add the new email to their address books and remind them to delete the old. However, you can periodically check the old account to see if they are following suggestion with the new address. But possible. A friend of mine claims she has gotten some virus from me and I know I did not send one. I have McAfee virus protection, I have checked my computer for spyware, it shows no spyware on the computer.

Could the friend possibly have gotten E-mail from me that I did not send? Has your friend identified which virus? Someone has hacked into my emails and is causing both me and my family considerable problems Is there a way to find out how this was done and to which email adress my info was tranfered to? Is it conceivable that someone could send an email from a Yahoo account without having access to the password or computer? How could that be possible?

I appreciate any information. That person is threatening me! What can I do? I think I know who it is! Well there is one thing known as Full Headers which contains many informations that might be helpful in locating the sender. Of course you will not be able to pin point a person, but still it can tell you about the geographical location and other info depending upon the email server and headers.

They could be in two completely different, unrelated, locations. Is it possible that my yahoo account and not my computer is infected with a virus? Any problems on the Yahoo side would be temporary, and cleared up very quickly.

Someone is sending very threatening emails using my email address through a website called deadfake. They have not actually hacked into my email acct. I am part of a committee that is putting on a high school reunion. The committee chair suggested I go to Yahoo. In order to access the information for your high school, you of course had to register, which I did.

As I was looking at the information that they had, I thought I could use this information for say the next 90 days to get out notices to the people on Reunions. So I paid by credit card 36 bucks for 90 days. When I hit submit, not only did they take my money but they stole my entire email address book from my computer!! Within minutes I was receiving dozens of emails and phone calls from people livid about me giving out their email addresses, which I of course had to explain.

This went on for two weeks! I wrote Reunion. I have changed my password. Is there a website I can report this to or do I go to the police? Got any suggestions? Thanks for your time. It never hurts to change your password. Just make sure to pick a good one. I keep getting email on my windows mail and it says from me but in the right click property it says may be forge so do i need to report this to my ISP or not to worry.

I can get the ip address on them. I gave my x-wife my email address with hopes she would not call me anymoe and that she would send me emails instead. I was just informed that she could now use my email address to sign up for porn sites and such. Is this true and how will I be able to prove she was the one that used my email address. Apparently, we have the same email add….. So much like everyone else, someone used by email address to send spam to everyone on my contact list.

I changed my password, but it seems more likely this is a virus problem. Any ideas? There have been several occassions where emails have been sent from my hotmail account to each individual in my address book; AND the emails are in my sent folder. Would this signify that there is a virus on my computer my virus scan shows nothing? Or is it being done by the advertisers in the emails. If so, is there a way to do anything about it?

When I arrived at home this am,I had a e-mail from a buddy,It was bad but I never sent it. Furthmore another friend got all kinds of personal information about my kids. The only way they could have gotten this info was to be inside my computer. I am pretty computer savy and run anti-virus and check my ports But on this one I am lost. Some one had hacked into my 3 email address used for Business Been using this one for years use this with my girlf.

Can this account be reset, or destroyed as I have business information on the , and contacts on this one, and the other 2 are private. Please Help as I have 3 Hotmail account and all 3 were hacked. I have virus protection but this is continuing. It seems it only does it once per sender as far as I can tell. I receive e-mails with myself as sender advertising Viagra and other medicine — to both of my e-mail addresses.

I wonder if the thieves recieve e-mails sent to me by my friends? I have Little bit different problem. Please help me. I also did following. A have a related question. I am the owner of a domain name: mydomain.

Today, I started receiving bounced mail in my catchall account. Is there a way to prevent someone from doing this? I get e-mail in my new mail box that looks like I sent it to myself…where does that come from and why does it happen?

What if you have an ex-boyfriend that is a computer science major and this fool can crack your new password with this anti-software protection equipment? When I change my passwords he seems to be able to retrieve them from remote locations, because he does not live with me.

Can he also stop or change my outgoing e-mails? Lately I have been sending copies of all outgoing e-mails to myself to ensure that I recieve them and hope that the other party shall recieve theirs as well. I received an e-mail from a friend who said he suddenly went to Ireland, had been robbed, and needed a quick cash transfer to get back to the US. Just a loan, of course. Such are the results of a stolen e-mail address. Hello, Leo. Recently, somebody has hacked into my hotmail account and sent the email of a simple link to all of my contacts.

At first, I thought this was a mistake, but then it happened again, on March 10th, Another thing that they did was send it to emails I have previously sent to, and one of them was the FOX Broadcasting email. I immediately changed my password after the second time, and I would like to know your views on this whole situation. Thanks for your time, Jessica. Leo, I suspect that most of us did read your article. My followup question may be outside your expertise, but is there anything that can be done by way of legal regulation?

My hotmail is sending emails to people by itself. I keep getting postmaster error emails saying the address could not be found. In my sent items are all the emails that I did not send.

My yahoo email account got hacked last week. I just deleted that email account and notified as many of my friends as possible to block all emails coming from that account. I thought it was time for a clean start with a new email account. I learned it is wise to change my password regularly. How can I get read this. Plse help.

Olarene, Getting a new email address would help for awhile. Eventually spammers will find you again and put you on their lists. Hi recently I checked my email inbox and saw 5 failure notice from yahoo. When I saw my sent mail, there was some mails which were sent to many of my contact. The mails contented a webpage.

This mails are repeated again and again. My last use of net and yahoomail was at a coffee net. I also changed my password immediately. Mehrdad, Sounds like your email has been compromised. Read the article you just commented on, and this one: Email Hacked?

It said it was From my wifes address and sent To her cousin. Neither know anything about it and it contains personal info. How can this happen? I just sent you a question and to add to it is this.

So does this mean it was sent from Mexico? Neither party was in Mexico City. Thanks again. Perhaps your account was hacked. Email Hacked? Hi I have a problem with an email I sent. The email I sent was actually sent to one person and CC to a second person. However I received a reply from someone else on my contact list as if they were apart of the email but the reply came only to me. They were not part of that email however.

I checked my sent messages and I saw that I didnt send it them but there is that reply from them under the same email. Does that mean that the person not intended to receive the email did in fact get it? Anna, Leo has some really good articles on online privacy which you may want to read. You should never think of email as private because once it is out of your hands you have no control over it at all.

I opened it but did not reply. I have changed my email password to a 20 char one and my alternative address and my questions. Should I ignore these or is my account still compromised? Many thanks in advance. Take a look at this article from Leo about how to secure your account. It never hurts to change your password and double check your recovery info. They probably just grabbed your email off her contact list, and added you to their spam lists.

All you can really do in that case is try to manage it. Leo has an article on that Why am I getting spam from myself? My own computers if at all feasible are unplugged and the batteries released when not in use. In addition, the modem is unplugged. If not feasible, then the wireless is disabled. I pick up my e-mails through an IP rather than outlook express. I had been getting forwarded e-mails from friends involving political issues, but any reply entered the black hole of D.

I counted two or three individuals involved. If three, then one appeared to promote the democratic party, one the replublican party, and one an unknown third party. If there was a hack at all, it sounds like it was their online account, and once again not their computer. I asked them but of course, they ignore my request.

What am I entitled to do and what can I do besides deleting my account and changing provider? Can I legally attempt an action for false accusation? I have checked with various up to date anti virus, anti malware programs to find spam-sending botnet, but none have been found. Also, my email provider never answered to me when I asked for a log of all activities on my account since 15 days to check if there was any suspicious activity of course, I am not the NSA, so they ignore my request My question is: How do you find out if you are victim of hacking or spam-sending botnet on your email account.

And how technically can you find out, find the IP of the person using your email or the program doing so? Trying to find out about that, I suddenly ended up on a website stating me that my IP was starting by While, as you probably see it now, it is not at all this kind of address.

Is it related to my issue with emails and does that mean I am victim of some hacker accessing my PC? It is a pleasure to help you with your issue on your email account. Let's find out what are the possible options that we can do to resolve your issue. You mentioned that your email account is automatically sending suspicious emails to your contacts without your consent.

Based on the statements you provided, there is a possibility that your account is compromised. It is also possible that the spammer is using your email account to send spam messages. We strongly suggest that you change your password and update your account information immediately. A strong password combination would be a great help in protecting your account. If you receive any suspicious emails emails came from unknown senders , do not open it or click any links that it might have.

There is a chance that those links will lead you to install spywares, malwares, and other viruses that may harm your computer and steal your information. There are a lot of things that we can do to prevent this.