Has someone Hi-jacked my account ?

[Guest]

I keep getting mails from mail delivery subsystem or system administrator
saying thing like "mail undeliverable" I am getting loads of these just
lately and it seems I have sent out mails with headings like Do you want to
by a Rolex ect, is it possible someone is sending these from my email address
somehow and if so can it be stopped?
thanks for your help

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

get yourself a SPAM filter and you'll get a whole lot less of these sputious
emails.


Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
complaining.
Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal

 

[F.H. Muffman]

get yourself a SPAM filter and you'll get a whole lot less of these
sputious emails.

And, just to comment on the other part, it is highly unlikely that your
account was hijacked (tho, if your password is extremely easy to guess, I'd
change it regardless). Anyone can really put whatever they want on an
emails From field. I could send mail from you, the president and Bill Gates
without breaking a sweat or even opening a mail client, just by using telnet
and an open smtp relay. Really, all you can do is set up a good spam filter
to take care of the failed Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs).