Someone has hijacked my email address and sent out **** emails - 147 at last count.
Rest assured there not from me.

Thank you Gary Robinson of ************** for letting me know.Very much appreciated.

To the pest responsible.Grow up and get a life.

Cheers
darky

The odds are that noone has knowingly hijacked your email address.

This is what a virus usually does. Odds are someone who you have e-mailed in the past has some malware in their computer. This malware is then sending out e-mails from their computer pretending to be from you.

There are usually links to click in the e-mail which will infect the person's computer with a virus if clicked.

Thanks Neil,
I have computer protection Avasti.
I would have hoped that this would have picked up any virus.Obviously not.

Have been advised to change my user name and password.

How do I go about that re Propun.

Thanks to all the punters who I regularly correpond with for your support.
I only got one crackpot email,and he,s best forgotten.

Cheers
darky

A simple way to stop this happening to your email again,

is set up a bogus email address starting with say AAA
e.g.
AAA@hotmail

The virus will not be able to go past this first address because it is bogus, thus protecting your legit entries.

Malware often gets around a number of virus protection programs, thats what makes them insidious.

I would run this very good free Malware killer.
I have used it myself & it worked a treat.
This will remove the problem.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

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Cheers.

Thanks Bghawan.Much appreciated.
Will do it now.

Cheers
darky