Avoiding spammers

[Dale DeRemer]

I have a cable modem connection. I run McAfee, and have a firewall on my
netgear router. Occassionally I get emails from (e-mail address removed) that
says my email was rejected. But I didn't send an email to that place. So,
how do I tell, and be sure that spammers aren't using my machine?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Probably bogus - most viruses and spammers spoof the sender, so the
recipient server is sending you the NDR because they think it originated
from you. We all get those from time to time - delete 'em.

Also, make sure you run regular scans with your AV software, run Windows
Update regularly, and try AdAware (www.lavasoft.de) to check for spyware.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a cable modem connection. I run McAfee, and have a firewall on
my netgear router. Occassionally I get emails from
(e-mail address removed) that says my email was rejected. But I didn't
send an email to that place. So, how do I tell, and be sure that
spammers aren't using my machine?
Thanks in advance.

Someone with you in their address book has a virus/trojan/work or you have
posted your email somewhere without munging it and it has been collected by
such a worm/virus/bot that it is sending email using your address as the
return address and you are getting the end results.

Nothing you can really do but wait it out.. They come in cycles.

 

[Fritz]

It's most likely a virus.