Email Security - Spammers?

[kram 2.0]

Hey,

Today, I noticed that there were an immense amount of "Delivery failure notices" in my inbox...mail that I never sent. It'd my Yahoo! account, which I will not list here. I am under the strong suspicion that someone's going into my account and using my email to Spam people - what would be the best solution to halting this atrocious act? I'm thinking a change in password should do it, but I'm not quite sure how they got it in the first place - I'm pretty confidential with my stuff and I have a pretty heavy layer of Security Protection to keep keyloggers out.

Thanks,
kram

[mairving]

It could be that someone is getting into your account. It could also be that you are getting viruses. Many of them use that trick to say that your message was undeliverable and have your message as an attachment, which is the virus. It could also be that someone else has a virus and is spoofing your email address with the virus. What's on the subject line of those emails would be the key.

[kram 2.0]

Well, I'm kinda concerned that it might be a keylogger on my PC - I was self-assured that my security layer should be able to take on the viri that would attack my computer. I went ahead and changed my password to see what'll happen...hope that fixes it.

And as for junk mail and such, Yahoo! Bulk folder does catch them...it's very effective, and a big mailbox for its being free (100MB). However, it does catch some false negatives which I have to sort thorugh. I have never opened a suspicious attatchment...I think the only one I've opened was from PC Mech itself!


Thanks,
kram

[doctorgonzo]

In the past week or so I too have received e-mails of this type. Since the address to which the delivery failed was not an address I have ever sent anything to, I think it was a virus. I've gotten e-mails exactly like this that were virii.