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Spam from my own email

  • 13-01-2014 09:58AM
    #1
    donegal11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭


    I don't known how this happened but I received a spam email through my own gmail through my aol(which is linked from gmail) to the gmail account and my old ireland.com address? How could this happen and what should I do? I was online at the time.


Comments

  • #2
    FuzzyCraic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭FuzzyCraic


    Hi Donegal11,

    Step 1 : Go to http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
    Download the free client and run it

    Step 2 : Run a antivirus Scan (Download Avira, Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials)

    Step 3 : Download a antispam client (do a google for Malware bytes)

    Step 4 : Change your gmail password (best would be to choose a strong password .. strong means at least 8 characters from which one symbol, one number, one lower case and one uppercase....

    example of a stronge password would be Winter_2014


  • #3
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    While it might well be some sort of malware, there's also the possibility that the spam is forging/spoofing your own email address. It's not unknown for spammers to do this, seen it many times, and there's just about nothing you can do about it if it is a case of spoofing. There might be clues in the email headers for originating servers.


  • #4
    FuzzyCraic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭FuzzyCraic


    I agree with Tricky D but still i would take security measures...Hell yeah it could be spoof but still if that would be it highering security is a must.

    If you are new to CC cleaner and or don t feel technical enough to do this watch this youtube video below it is just 2 minutes

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOySsDcv8Yk

    Or open the application go to cleaner then click on analyze then click on run cleaner.
    If you are not very computerminded i would leave the other functions as they are....

    Then download a free antivirus client i would go for avast

    and then run a spam client like free malware bytes...


    don t forget changing the password of your mailaccount also. This is very important.
    If you don t feel like doing all them things then leave the cc cleaner and the spamclient

    But run a antivirus and change your password

    I had similar issues years ago and changing password to a very strong password always fixed issues for me....

    Some spam apps use password calculators


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