unusual e-mails

welshasiancheapskate

Hi sorry if this is in the wrong board,i just logged into my usual e-mail add to check my e-mail and have found abut 40 e-mails which are titles deliver failure-I could detect it was scam as I have not attempted to send so many e-mails to people.I also noticed another e-mail with sender as MMT and did open and this is what it says

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I was wondering how do I avoid these kind of scam /suspicious e-mails.Any help suggestions appreciated.
thanks

wacs xx

macman

What email account are you using? Someone has either hacked your account and is sending spam from it, in which case the first thing to do is change your password to something more secure. Or more likely you have just been address-spoofed, and so the undeliverable spam is just bouncing back to your address. If the original emails are not showing in your 'Sent' folder, then it's the latter.
What AV software are you using, and is it up to date?

welshasiancheapskate

Hi macman,im a dumbo when it comes to techie,thank you for the reply.I've just chekced my sent and yes they have sent from account and I don't think I have AV software :-$,which one would you recommend? TIA

Wacs xx

welshasiancheapskate

welshasiancheapskate wrote: »

Hi macman,im a dumbo when it comes to techie,thank you for the reply.I've just chekced my sent and yes they have sent from account and I don't think I have AV software :-$,which one would you recommend? TIA

Wacs xx

and btw its my msn.com account

macman

Then it's been hacked, change your password immediately before someone else does.
I would suggest Avira, Avast or MSE if you want a free one. Or Kaspersky if you want a commercial one.
How long did you think your PC would last without any anti-virus installed? You'll probably now need to do a major clean up as it may be heavily infected.

welshasiancheapskate

hi again,thanks, I have installed avirast now from MSE. I am not a techie person so I wasn't really sure which one to install though I have microsoft windows essential from mse installed already. Much appreciated.
Wacs xx

macman

You said you didn't have any antivirus software installed If you already have MSE installed then you musn't have another AV program as well, they will not work together, so remove one of them.
It's either Avira or Avast, not Avirast.