My e-mail address has been used for spam, how can I prevent this in the future. Anita G?

Question

My e-mail address has been used for some spam things, how can I react or change that? Thanks so much, Anita G

Answer 1

In the furture be VERY carefull who you give your email address to, signing up for website that you dont know may give away your email address to spam companies, or if you lets say post on a forum, that gives out your email address people may take your email address and sell it to spam companies, also when you receive spam DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS!!!! Theese links will tell the site that sent it to you that this is an active account, and will send MORE spam to you.

theres no way to not receive spam, almost everyone recieves it just enable you spam/junk mail settings in your email to automatically delete theese or put them in a different folder named "Spam" or "Junk"

Answer 2

If you believe that spammers are making it look like you're sending spam, the answer is unfortunately "nothing". Email is delivered using a series of connected computers called "relays" (a similar idea to how the internet works). Most relays will double check to make sure that the "sender" of an email matches the computer sending it, but some do not, and spammers take advantage of this to hide their identities.

If your computer is actually sending out spam, then one thing you can do to prevent it is to secure your computer from hackers.

1. Turn it off when you are not using it. A hacker cannot use a computer that is off, they are interested in the millions of other computers that do stay on all the time.
2. Buy and install anti-virus software from a well known company, such as Symantec or Norton. This will project you from bigger threats too, such as attempts at identify fraud.
3. Use browsers that have security settings, and increase the security level to high (FireFox 2.0 is one good browser, and Internet Explorer 7.0 is decent).
4. Watch what you browse on the web. Unless it's important, try to avoid sites that are not immediately well known to you. Many hackers can take advantage of weak browsers to compromise your computer. Try to stick with large well known web sites, or things that are very very obscure.

Answer 3

The only way this could happen is that you installed Malware, Spyware, or a Trojan Dropper on your computer, then the person that made the program was able to get the stored username and passwords off of your computer for your email accounts!!! (I'd check all of your accounts now)
You need to do some house cleaning on your PC (Clean out the above stated) and put in place preventive measures to insure this won't happen again...
Programs you NEED...
Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, SpywareBlaster...All free.

Answer 4

If you read you header really carefully, you can find a line "Name=3DGenerator" It a puter name generator, Nothing you can do. Except maybe a spam blocker like Mailwasher.org and you use Name gernerator as a filter

Answer 5

If it's yahoo mail you are talking about, use the spam tool in Yahoo Mail Bata. you won't get rid of the spam entirely but you can slow it down

Answer 6

Get a new Email address.