How can I stop spam emails coming from my email address?

Emails keep getting sent to everone in my address book through my email address. It is all spam.


How has this happened and how can I stop it?


Thanks everone.
How can I stop spam emails coming from my email address?
You have been attacked by a Trojan, and your computer has been turned into a Zombi. You need to run a good anti virus program and a couple of good anti spyware programs.





If this virus is embedded to deep, you may need to reinstall your Operating System and all of your programs.





Following is a list of sites that offer free anti virus and anti spyware software. Don't be fooled by the word "free", this stuff work very well.





All of the following are free, and work very well.





Note: It is best to run at least 2 anti spyware programs, but never run more then 1 anti virus to eliminate conflicts.











Virus Removal





AVG





http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/...





Avast





http://www.avast.com/eng/free_virus_prot...





Avria





http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Pe...








Sypware/Malware Removal





Adaware





http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Pers...





Spybot S%26amp;D





http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-De...








Malwarebytes





http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Reply:Well the best way to fight spam is not opening the messages, not even with the preview. Spam messages report the spammer when opened and it shows him that the address is still in use so he will bomb your email with lots and lots of spam.





Try flagging them and/or marking them as spam if you have them in your inbox. Delete them right after. Never open spam or suspicious messages that you know you will never recieve and/or you are not expecting. Try also increasing safety features. Spam is a headache to everyone this days but this is the only way to fight against them.





I also have the same trouble! Good Luck.
Reply:Yes, that person who said you have been infected and need to scan is right but you should be able to get away with not needing to reinstall the operating system. Go to here and work right through the guide - if the spam hasn't stopped by the time you have done all the cleaning work, then you can continue on in the guide and get help in posting to the forum for more help:


http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread....





The guide uses Malwarebytes, SUPERAntiSpyware and ComboFix - each of those are excellent programs.





I recommend you get onto it straight away and/or use a firewall to block your email program from being able to send emails for now. This will help protect you from getting your email address put on a banned list by some companies until you can get the problem sorted out.
Reply:Jo-


Stevic is right; virus's typically infect a victim, then send themselves to everyone in your mail address book.


This has been a virus behavior of attachments that get opened.


Do some serious scans and clean up your system.





In the future, Never open attachments. From anyone. And don't get your friends in the habit of opening attachments from you.


Get a website (plenty of free ones available) and post anything you'd normally attach there; then send the URL to your associate for them to see whatever it is.


Opening attachments is at best a 50/50 chance of it being what you expect.
Reply:You should run an antivirus and spyware (like Spybot) program to remove anyone who hacking your computer. Then you change the passwords on your login to your email.





You might also be the victim of a spammer who has randomly selected your email address as the return path and/or from for outbound spam.
Reply:Report them as Spam or Block them





By doing this you will not get any mails from those mail Ids but you will still receive spam mails from other Id's which u didn't blocked or reported as spam
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Reply:give your pc a virus scan it might be that your pc has been hijacked thats if im reading your posting correctly good luck
Reply:block them?