Spam from my own email????

[ChrisBurch]

I'm running Outlook 2002, and downloading my email from my ISP (Optusnet). Lately, I've been getting some spam mail come through, addressed from my own email address. ie username@optusnet.com.au.

I don't have any corresponding emails in my sent mail folder, on either my pc or on my webmail. I put a block on the 'from' address, and sent myself an email from my webmail account, and the email got filtered. So I don't know how to stop them. I'm more worried that spam may be going out to other people, and appear to be from me.

I'm running TrendMicro Internet Security 2009. I don't respond to spam, or click the 'unsubscribe'.

Can anyone suggest a way of handling this situation.

Chris

IT would be the perfect job......if it didn't have users!!!

 

[noveyron]

Just delete them. If you look at the mail headers, you will probably find that they didn't actually originate from your own PC.

Have a word with Optusnet too, they probably have spam filtering functionality that you have not yet availed yourself to. Should be relatively cheap, or even free perhaps.