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A couple of days ago I received an advertising eamail that was sent
from my main email address to the same email address. Does this mean
it has to have been sent from my computer, or at least from my isp?

Thanks
Mike
 
A couple of days ago I received an advertising eamail that was sent
from my main email address to the same email address. Does this mean
it has to have been sent from my computer, or at least from my isp?

Thanks
Mike
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It is wise to have a good Internet Security Suite consisting of
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware/Malware, Anti-Spam and Firewall installed on
your computer. You might have Malware sending out emails or as it has
happened to me twice in the past, my email details were harvested from
the Internet, that is a big reason a lot of people do not use there
real email addresses, some alter them slightly and add a note to there
posts to remove this or that to reply and others make one up. Since I
stopped using my real email address in newsgroups and encrypted the
one at my website, I have not had that problem.

If you do not have a good Internet Security Suite installed, I think
you should give it some serious thought.

You might want to contact people in you address book and see if they
have received some strange emails from you.

Cheers
Keith
 
I have PC-Cillin 2008, Spybot, AdAware and a firewall in my router. I
thought I was as safe as I could make it, thouggh I didn't expect my
system to be impervious to those who know how to get around the
defences.
 
MikeM said:
A couple of days ago I received an advertising eamail that was sent
from my main email address to the same email address. Does this mean
it has to have been sent from my computer, or at least from my isp?

Thanks
Mike
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No. It just means that a very clever spammer has found a way to spoof you,
to send spam to you. Just another way to bypass anti-spam measures. -Dave
 
I have PC-Cillin 2008, Spybot, AdAware and a firewall in my router. I
thought I was as safe as I could make it, thouggh I didn't expect my
system to be impervious to those who know how to get around the
defences.
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Your PC is probably still safe.

Your email address could have been 'harvested' from an infected PC that had your
email address in its files - maybe one of your less-careful friends.
Or it could have been got from one of your own public messages that included
your address, or from the files of a web site that you contacted.

Spammers not only send spam to every address they can find, but to hide their
true identity (and to slip past some 'white list' input filters) they 'spoof'
their mailings to look as if they came from one of those trusted addresses.
One way to detect spoofing is to compare the path shown in the email header with
that from the real sender; it's a little harder for them to fake that.
 
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