undelivered emails I didn't send

hayden

Hopefully someone has answers to this . . . over the last few days there have been 'returned' or 'undelivered' emails that I haven't sent in junk box. Today there was 28! One suggestion is that my Hotmail account has been hijacked.

How do I stop this? Are the emails being sent from my IP? Or is it just the Hotmail acc?

Is this related? problems with windows explorer when opening any windows apps -slow or won't open (OS is Vista).

Thankyou

Sput2001

It's far more likely that it's spammers just "spoofing" your email address.

Your email account almost certainly hasn't been hijacked, and the messages won't actually be coming from your PC.

There's more info on it here.

hayden

thanks -for that -reading the bit about return paths definately nails this one down -so I've got worms LOl. However, is there a solution other than creating new acc or will that be infected as well?

Paul_Herring

hayden wrote: »

thanks -for that -reading the bit about return paths definately nails this one down -so I've got worms LOl. However, is there a solution other than creating new acc or will that be infected as well?

It's unlikely you're 'infected' - another page you might want to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job

Sput2001

hayden wrote: »

thanks -for that -reading the bit about return paths definately nails this one down -so I've got worms LOl. However, is there a solution other than creating new acc or will that be infected as well?

It probably not you who's got the worms, so to speak. It's more likely to be someone who's got your email address in their contact book or in-box. Your PC etc. is quite probably clean.

The only thing to worry about is that the spammers have your email address.