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- distraught - help pls - some ones cloned my email address from 20 diff ip addresses
thank you all - i'd never heard of thunderbird, however looked it out, & subseqently installed, now training it to de clutter my in box -
thank you once again
J
Generally - what happens, is a virus picks up your email from someone else's infected computer - the virus trawls for addresses on the infected pc and then the virus replicates itself by sending out more spam but changes the from field to hide the infected pc (makes it harder to track down). Not much you can do I'm afraid.
I would recommend running a full anti-virus scan on your pc, but best bet is just to ignore/filter them. Spammers can also run scripts which harvest email addresses off websites so def edit your post above.
Its well worth having a seperate email address for public and private use - that way if you do start to get spam, you can fairly easily dump the public one.
