mac viruses

Hi. Just wondering if anyone could help. I have recently new Macbook Pro and my ISP people tell me I have a virus. I'm a getting lots of returned to sender emails which won't stop. My email address is an open one, as in it is anything @hostname.demon.co.uk and the returned emails are just randon letters @hostname.demon.co.uk, if that makes sense. It's as if I am spamming people and the emails are bouncing back from non existent addresses. Anyone have any advice?

Thanks

Tell your ISP people there are no viruses for the Mac. If e-mail is getting bounced, it could be a Mail setting as you can bounce mail from the Mail App.

re virus

Hi. No. it's as if my email address is being used to spam other people then I get constant undeliverable mails from address i have never heard of as if I have sent a mail. ISP said even macs are getting affected and when I phoned mac, they said: which virus? and to try mac-forum

I have had this happen to me before, and have chalked it up to spoofing. The spammer is using your email address as the sending address, even though it is coming from somewhere else. All part of their effort to hide as they overwhelm everyone's inbox with junk.

Sorry, but it's just not a virus.(I guess that's a good thing, though.)

so if it's not a virus, any idea how i can stop it? change email address. it's picking them up as junk but not everyone. just a real pain. thanks for the tips

Yeah, changin your email address would solve it.

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