VIRUS? : Sending Emails

[J.R.]

Over the past few days I've gotten several 'mail undeliverable' messages
which I'm convinced are legitimate. They have all the proper tagging from my
ISP, and the format and layout is all correct etc.

Problem is I never sent any of these emails, I fear my computer is being
used to send spam! Anyone have any information on this, please?

If requested I can email a copy of an email I received like this one.

Thx in advance,
J.R.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It is a virus indeed but you don't have to be infected yourself. A virus
searches on the infected computer for a "From" and "To" address. When the
"To" address is not valid then the "From" address will receive an
undeliverable message.

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[Mark]

Over the past few days I've gotten several 'mail undeliverable' messages
which I'm convinced are legitimate. They have all the proper tagging from my
ISP, and the format and layout is all correct etc.

Problem is I never sent any of these emails, I fear my computer is being
used to send spam! Anyone have any information on this, please?

If requested I can email a copy of an email I received like this one.

Thx in advance,
J.R.

I just posted the same question I think. The subject is "Emails can be
received but not sent from Outlook"

Have a look - unfortunately I have no solution as of yet, but I think
if we have the same problem we can help each other once we do find a
solution.