OK.... Recently I have been getting increasing amounts of spam emails all with varied titles (to avoid the spam filter, I guess) all trying to sell me financial services (makes a change from a pen15 extension I guess:rolleyes: )

Anyway, these have been getting more and more frequent with me deleting every time without ever opening any attachments. In the last 3-4 days though I have been getting some real problems... When I hit the 'read emails' for Outlook, it takes about 3-4 mins to 'load up' and then takes a lot longer to download the emails. Also I am getting loads (about 20 a day!) emails stating 'postmaster return' type messages (none of which have been returned from any people in my address book) - A scam maybe?

I am guessing I have got some sort of virus. However, I am running a fully up to date version of Norton and it doesn't detect anything when I run a full system scan. I've also run ad-aware and spy sweeper to no avail.

Any ideas?:(

Terry,

Basically some ****** is spamming the world using your e-mail address as a return address. There is nowt you can do about this, short of waiting it out and if you are still getting loads in about a week poking your ISP and registering a complaint just so that they don't cut you off it somebody complains to them about you.

They shouldn't anyway since it won't have been the ISP's mail server sending it, but some peopledon't check these things.

HTH

I dont think you have a virus, maybe a problem with your ISP email servers is causing the slowdown.

I am bombarded to, usually get around 50 per day. Thats after its been through two spam filters which get rid of I dont know how many, as I cant be bothered to check.

Thanks for that...

Just wish I could reply to the culprit;)

Thanks for that...

Just wish I could reply to the culprit;)

You can, just hit te reply button and you should see the reply instantly in your inbox

Seriously though I know just how frustrating this can be, but the only realy way to get over this is to totally replace SMTP with a more secure system

... Also I am getting loads (about 20 a day!) emails stating 'postmaster return' type messages (none of which have been returned from any people in my address book) - A scam maybe?....

I was getting these, I checked the sender address on the original emails which were attached and they were basically '[email protected]' etc.. and were being picked up by postmaster account. I did a little research on my ISP provider website and found that I can block all emails not sent to a real mailbox, since doing this the returned undelivered emails have now stopped.

you've just got someone spamming the world from their machines (or more likely a botnet belonging to someone else!) and they've forged your address as the sender.

Nowt you can do.

Spambayes is very good for binning spam on windows though...

ric