I received a delivery failure for a message which I never sent ! Does this mean I am being hacked ? who is u

Question

does this mean I am being hacked ?

Answer 1

Hacked??? Oh boy.

It most likely means your email address was harvested and is being used as the "sender" for a bunch of spam. So when the "receiver" get the email, they think the spam came from you.

Answer 2

You probably have a Trojan Virus on your computer. This is common of Trojans to send out emails from your computer that are infected. This fools your Contacts because they trust you. When they click on the link, you recommend, then they get infected.

Run your AV and AS programs. If they find nothing it doesn't mean your not infected. It just means they might not be recognizing this one. About 1500 new and modified older Malware programs are introduced every month to the Internet.

You can also use this online site to scan your computer. Remove all that it finds.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

You can also try the best Trojan finder and remover here.

http://www.ewido.net/en/

Answer 3

Sounds like spam or phishing email
To be safe, change your password and secret question.

Dont think its anything to worry about. Probably just a spam email that made it back to your inbox Or a trick to get you to open the message

Answer 4

this would be on account which think approximately registered in a yahoo team and any between the individuals of the team would have mailed to somebody and the id could no longer exist and the transport checklist could be spoke returned to each and each and each and all of the individuals of the team

Answer 5

Could just be a fluke, but you should be running spy scans regularly.

Answer 6

1 -- yes it possible that your pc has been hacked
2 -- they can be spoofing you e-mail to check if its a real e-mail address, but your not hacked
3 -- spyware/trojans/viruses might be the culprit