Spam email sent from my Account?

[albundy99]

Hi,

Has anyone had any problems with email being sent from their account?

Today I received lots of mail failure notices with the following message (see below). I definately didn't send these so how have they used my email account?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Simon

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[Silmaril8n]

Oftentimes that can be caused by a virus in someones else's computer which has your email address in their book.

[hrjul1405]

Exactly the same thing has just started happening to me. Were you able to track down the actual cause of the problem?

I noticed that they were all coming in through my "catch all" account so I turned that off but am not sure if there is something else happening. Any thoughts?

[thxlor]

I had 456 emails this morning when I checked my email.

I found a couple of articles about what can be done.

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/findin..._contacts.html

I doubt host rocket will do anything about it.