these are also spam Mr Foz. Its one of the ways round the filters.

Hi Paul..
The only thing i can think of then, would be one somehow was opened that sent back a message to the main server confirming your inbox was open for business?

Ahhhhhhh the returned mail scam.  I wouldn't just check your inbox ...... but your outbox too ..... You may be unwittingly sending these mails out to somone else Paul.

A lot of these "undelivered" mails originate from hyjacked accounts and some of them contain the means to hyjack your accounts too. Just delete them, never open them and keep your fingers crossed that you havent been hyjacked too.

Fozzer,

This is a well known phenomona.

Many of the virus programs look in the victim's computer for email addresses.  The virus program then sends out scads of virus infected emails that APPEAR to be coming from one of the email addresses that was located in the poor victim's address book.

If YOUR address happens to be in the victim's address book.... then a bunch of people are getting emails that APPEAR to be coming from you..... but they aren't.  This often leads them to open the emails... cause it is a familiar name.  This further spreads the infection.

Then when the receiving end's of these bogus mails virus stopper prevents the mail with the virus from going thru... the message gets sent back to the origanator of the message...... which the automated programs think is YOU.  But it isn't.  But YOU get all the "retuirned mail" crap.

So if you are

SURE

that your computer is not the one responsible....... just delete all that "bounce" and "returned" crap and wait til the infection subsides.  It can take weeks.  BTW... if you look at the addresses that the stuff is returned FROM.... if they start to look like LOTS of names in YOUR address book...... I'd be checking my own computer for problems again it I were you  .

best,

.....................john

Paul, run the normal gambit of security precautions, Norton, Spybot, etc...

But then also check out "The Cleaner" by Moosoft (Google it).  The only time I ever had a real problem, I had inadvertently picked up a Trojan somewhere that was sending TONS of spam out without my knowledge...to the point where my ISP nixed my connection until I called them to see what was up.  They're the ones who recommended it.

It's payware, but you get a free trial.  Run that and see if maybe there's something hiding in there that you're not seeing.

Hello all...!
With Scott's, (Hyperion), help, I finally managed to get rid of the "Trojans" affecting my e-mails with his recommended program...

...."The Cleaner" from...>>>

http://www.moosoft.com/

The two Trojans which were giving me serious problems were....
Newdotnet.
Gator.

The cleaner found both of them and successfully deleted them both.

No more problems at the moment....
...until the next time... ...!
LOL...!

Paul.

P.S. What really annoys me is the fact that I spend £64 + updates, for Norton Systemworks, and this only locates Virus's....and NOT Trojans, etc... ...!
Another seperate £64? program has to be purchased to eliminate that additional problem...!!!


P.P.S. This illustrates the problem I was having due to the Trojans affecting my mail.....
I really didn't need any of this...!!!...>>>

Hey Paul, sounds to me like something similar to what my grandmother was experiencing in regard to the returned mail.

What happened was she sent a message to an address that didn't exist anymore, so then outlook express tried over and over to send it out unsuccessfully, once I got it out of the outbox it went away...

As suggested above though it sounds like you have more than just that going on in your mailbox!