Thread: Email account has being misused

I have an email account. The password is only known by me and I don't think the account has been compromised. I have changed the password recently. Since the last few days, I have been receiving lots of mails; some of them saying remove me from mailing iist. What are these emails? Is it some kind of a virus or a joke.

What do I do next? I have been receiving lots of these emails and I have been sending back mails asking them to remove me from the list.

My ISP uses a proxy server. I don't use any SMTP nor do I have a mail server or client installed on my computer. Is my computer being misused over the internet? I haven't been on any of the sites mentioned in the email. I use the latest version of NOD32 and the firewall doesn't show me any problems.

It's just spam. Use a spam filter or ignore the junk mail. Also, never reply to junk mail - this just confirms that your email address is genuine.