Someone Has Accessed My Account And Is Sending Out Emails Using My Address

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Answer #1: Posted by exotericroach on December 3rd, 2010 5:54 PM

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There are a couple of things you can do to remedy this, the first would be to change your password right away, you may also want to download an antivirus/firewall program to ensure you don't have any infected files on your pc. I would recommend AVG free, you can obtain a free license from download.com, just search for AVG free.

There is a possibilty that someone also may be using your email address by using whats called an email spoofer, this is just a program that makes it look like it came from your email, even though they may not even know your password/username, there really is no way around fixing this, however you may be able to find out who or where the emails are coming from if you can obtain an email that was sent by the person who is using your email address, all emails contain valuable information in what is called the header of the email. feel free to email me at [email protected] if you need some help

Shaun Michael Hawkins, A+ Certified, MCSE, Http://www.xtechnica.net

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