What is going on with my email address book

Hi everyone, I am having a problem and I do not know what it is. I have a Dell insperon 530 and I use windows vista. I notice that someone has been sending emails to all the people in my address book, I did not send them, it is obvious spam. I can tell because of some of the address in my book is obsolete so they came back as undeliverable and then a few friends told me they got spam mail from me and I did not send it. Do you know what is wrong and what I should do? Any help would be great. Thanks and aloha from Hawaii. Chris "Kalai"

Hello Kalai,

This could be any combination of account hacking, malware or e-mail spoofing.

My first suggestion is to go to a computer that you know is clean from any malware and change the password. This should temporarily stop the e-mails being sent out.

Next, I suggest you create a topic in our Malware forum to see whether you're infected or not.

http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?showforum=27

Once any Malware is cleaned up, just post back here if the problems persist.


Cheers,
Nahumi