[Healeys] Spam E-mail

[Len and/or Marge Hartnett]

THIS ONE IS FROM ME!  The spam e-mail that you have been receiving was NOT 
sent by me.  The last e-mail that I sent to The List had a link to the Fraz 
comic strip.  From what I understand, this is not the link that is in any of 
the spam e-mail that you have been receiving.

The first person to contact me about this situation was a Lister on 10/3 . 
I responded to him through The Healey Mail List asking, "what message"?  I 
further stated that I had received over 50 'failure to deliver' messages 
that morning. Many of them to recipients that are not on the Healey Mail 
List. Someone get into my address book? If they were valid address, why did 
they fail to deliver?  Did their security programs block them?

What I noted was that although the names were familiar, the servers were not 
the same as currently in my address book.  Of 19 addresses checked, only 
three were as shown in my Address Book.  Nineteen were familiar names but 
the servers were different.  Five were addresses/names that I did not know.

I asked if anyone else on The List had gotten a bad e-mail from me.  No one 
responded.  That has changed over the last couple of days.  I ran all my 
security scans again to see if anything showed up.  Avast - nothing. 
AdAware - only cookies.  However, SuperAntiSpyware noted two critical 
threats.  They say they removed them.  I could not tell what they were 
because full addresses were not provided.  What was shown for both was, 
"c:\USERS\LEONARD-PC\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Wi...\webfile".  I consider 
myself somewhat computer challenged (duh!) and those did not give me any 
clues as to what the threat was.

My computer has not been turned on yesterday and most of today.  When I 
turned it on about 4:30 PM, I had 184 e-mails, 46 of which were "Mail 
Delivery System" noting failed deliveries or returned messages.  There were 
several other "From" addresses stating virtually the same thing.

Since I do not have the technical knowledge to resolve this problem, any 
assistance that anyone can give in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

(The Other) Len
Vacaville, CA, USA
1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031