Someone's sending from my email address! How do I stop them?!

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olarene: did you read the article that these questions are about? It answers your question as best it can be answered.

http://ask-leo.com/archives/000065.html

Leo

A friend of mine claims she has gotten some virus from me and I know I did not send one. I have McAfee virus protection, I have checked my computer for spyware, it shows no spyware on the computer. Could the friend possibly have gotten E-mail from me that I did not send?

If you mean the type of email as described in the article here, yes that's certainly a possibilty. Has your friend identified which virus?

Hi
Is it possible that a virus of this sort that is being discussed could actually change my email account password? I have tried to change this on the actual web site and it refuses to let me log in. I am having the same problems with returned mail but I cannot seem to change my password.Until I can change this, I can't change my password on outlook.
Cheers in advance.

I've not heard of any viruses that actually *change* passwords. My recommendation would be to have your provider reset your password and then change it again yourself.

The other day, a friend whom I have been recently coresponding with, thought she might not be receiving all my mail that I sent her. Now I usually save a copy to my sent folder, so I went there and copied prior dates and sent them out in one email, she received this one and said, for sure there were two emails I sent, where she did not receive them. Then the other day, another friend said she received my second email, not the first one. Why is this happening, here I am trying to find employment as well and I have no way of knowing if my intended receiver is receiving my emails?
Also have you ever heard of this; http://www.geocities.com/thugs_creator/20.htm? It is some sort of spyware or hacker, I am not sure, all I know is when I take the address and place in the Privacy blocker in internet options, it appears in a new number like it's already been 1-19, today was 20. It won't go away, I use Spybot and Destroy and Ad Ware, but neither seem to grasp it. Also what might nmpjgg32.exe be? I am ponder many thoughts, but will allow you to extinguish those, maybe. Thank you B

I just wrote in a minute ago, I also wanted to mention how strange it seems, that I seem to be not receiving anyemails, where would they be, any way to retrieve them if I have never opened them? Cheers, B

For the mail problem, try this article: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000034.html
For the geocities link, I couldn't see it, and don't quite understand your description or problem.
Couldn't find anything on nmpjgg32. The techniques listed here might help: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000015.html

Leo

If you don't seem to be receiving emails, it is possible that you clicked on a line in Outlook Express that hides all your emails.

Open Outlook Express and click on (View)and select (Current View). If there is a Dot beside (Hide all messages), then change to dot to (Show all messages).

If that was the problem, you should now see all your emails. Hope it works.

walter

Yeah... I am a WebTV user, and for the past month or so, I've been getting mail delivery failure notification emails from different addresses.

The returned emails that they claim to be mine are in German, and they're talking about Lebanese people in Berlin.

It says that they're being sent fro mmy address, but as far as I know, my email is only accessable from my WebTV terminal, here in my room. I also have no password to change, and the only alternative I can think of would be to make a new WebTV account, and move all of my info and everything to it. But this will take me a long time, and I will lose a lot of my information that is currently on the account I am using.

What do I do? How do I stop whoever this is from using my address? Do I or one of my friends have a virus? Help, please...

Sincerely,

--Justin Spurgeon

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