How do I stop spam from being sent from my email address?

Over the last couple of weeks all of my contacts in my email account have received spam that appears to be coming from my email address. Is this a virus on one of my computers or is my password compromised? What can I do about it? This is a Yahoo email address so if you have any contact information that would be great.How do I stop spam from being sent from my email address?
This does not mean that your computer has a virus or that someone has your Yahoo! password.



What has happened is that you have given the email address out and a spammer has “hijacked” it. The spammers have special email programs that allow them to alter the header of the emails they send out so it appears as though they were sent by someone else.



It is important for you to realize that those emails were not sent by your computer even though they had your email address in the “From:” field in the email header.



Here’s a recent article entitled, “Get Rid Of The Spam And Gain Control Of Your Inbox” That should help you out:



http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/…



In it the author recommends using disposable email addresses. This is an especially good strategy to use when giving your email address to people you do not know.



Here are some other links that should help you:



www.file5.com/search/spam-detection/1-…

www.file5.com/search/How-to-Stop-Junk-…How do I stop spam from being sent from my email address?
Sounds like you picked up a virus.

Immediately have your computer checked for a 'bug' or 'bugs.'

Once it is clean of pests, install a firewall and an anti-virus program if you do not have one yet.

I strongly recommend a program for malware and adware also.

After you finish this, then go in and change your password, using a good strong one.

Then you have to inform all of your contacts that you did not send them those mails, the virus did, and that they need to check their computers for infection, tooHow do I stop spam from being sent from my email address?
Your system could have a virus.

So, update your virusscanner and run a complete scan.



However, since it is your Yahoo account - and yahoo is an online mail system, this is unlikely.

What could have happened is that someone knows your password.



Solution - change your password now. Make sure it`s difficult to guess for others.

So - do not use "password" (you`ll be surprised how many use this one) - but rather something with caps, normal letters, numbers and special characters. If i take 'password' as example - you can make that hard by changing letters - and create something like "P@s$w0rd"



Of course - this example should not be used.



An alternative option is that your mail address is known to spammers - and sometimes used to spoof a sender. This is not something you can do anything about (if only)