Getting hundreds of e-mails back from Mail Administrator, that my PC was meant to have sent out.

magnum pi's picture
Casual user

Morning All, got a problem where I keep getting 'hundreds' of e-mails back from the Mail Administrator, with the subject Mail System Error - Returned Mail.
Opening only that page, it says-
"This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
Your message was not delivered because the destination computer was
not reachable within the allowed queue period."
There is always an attachment on each mail (about 6k), with a dodgy title like 'Your boss at Garys party' or 'Sexy photos...', (none of these have been opened)
My PC is only 6months old, Windows 7, Microsoft Office- Outlook for mail, Norton 360 up-to-date. Completed a scan a couple of days ago and Norton only picked up a couple of cookies.
Talked to Bigpond, and after some checking, they reckon the e-mails are, being sent out from my PC.
Where do I start to nail this thing? Any ideas out there would be appreciated, tks and cheers.

Answers

peterg's picture
Power user

Try Spybot S & D, Malwarebytes and Ad Aware. these are all free.
Best of luck.

Paul Zucker's picture
PC User writer

See the prior question

Receiving large (>100) amount of returned emails.

http://pcuser.com.au/help/security/2012/jan/receiving-large-100-amount-o...

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