Tons of "return mailer" emails

Over the past month, I have been getting atleast 5 emails a day with the same things. Return address email letters. I havent even sent any emails out.
Address unknown
Mail system error. Mail administrator failure notice, etc. All various things with links to email addresses that I have never seen. I havent run anti virus over the attatchments and havent opened any of them. I just delete them.

Whats going on with that. Its irritating and I wanna know how to block it with microsoft outlook.
It might be a lure to open a virus but even so, just getting them in my email bugs the **** out of me.

Bump.

it could be that you have a virus. blaster worm did something like that. try running the fixblast program on this site http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/da...oval.tool.html

Sounds like you might have the W32MyDoom virus. Here is a link to some info on it:
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...ydoom&cid=9547

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Originally Posted by bermich

Over the past month, I have been getting atleast 5 emails a day with the same things. Return address email letters. I havent even sent any emails out.
Address unknown
Mail system error. Mail administrator failure notice, etc. All various things with links to email addresses that I have never seen. I havent run anti virus over the attatchments and havent opened any of them. I just delete them.

Whats going on with that. Its irritating and I wanna know how to block it with microsoft outlook.
It might be a lure to open a virus but even so, just getting them in my email bugs the **** out of me.

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I'm having the same problem. All along I figured McAfee was doing a good job at protecting my computer but now I wouldn't be surprised if they were the ones sending the viruses. Gotta make money some way I guess:rolleyes:

Yeah. I checked for viruses on all common levels. trojans, emails, etc. The only last thing I can think of is (and it happened before) my internet provider is screwing up my email account since they merged with comcast. Im gonna get a new email address so Im not that concerned anymore.

there are tons of viruses that email your entire address book and also forges the return address as another person in the address book which makes it a less obvious on who is sending emails/viruses.. So you might not actually have a virus.. could be someone you know that has you in their address book.

You could be sending emails to invalid email addresses.