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February 12, 2003 at 05:56 AM
floofy

Email virus?

by floofy . Updated 23 years, 5 months ago

I have been using a hotmail account for about six years, now and am just now having problems. The SPAM and junk mail have been taken care of due to the filters added by Hotmail. My most recent problem is that I have become the SPAMmer. Each day Ireceive at least thirty emails of “undeliverable” mail with the body of the message regarding how to become debt free, or reduce mortgage addressed to recipients I have never heard of, apparently the domains haven’t either.

How did this happen and is there ANYTHING I can do to fix or prevent it? I have downloaded the program AdAware and that helped for the first stint of my spamming, but now I am lost. At my house, we have a LAN set up between three PCs and I am afraid if a virus is in my mail, it may get into the other computers. A cable connection keeps up connected 24/7.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Lindsay

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