Trojan?

[WillySteve]

I am continually getting spam emails sent to me from my own email address. I have blocked the sender on several occasions, but that also blocks me! This started on my windows XP desktop but continues on my new high end laptop. I run AVG free; Spybot and Spyware Doctor on both systems. Can someone help with this?

[areidmtm]

This has nothing to do with your computers...


There is effectively nothing you can do about this, except to wait for it to stop.

Forging a return address on email is no more difficult than writing a letter, putting it in an envelope, putting someone else's return address on the upper left corner, and dropping it in a mailbox.

If you're using an email client program like Outlook to fetch your messages, you could set up a rule that looks for something in the subject line, for example, that identifies these bounce messages, and moves them all to a junk folder, for easier deletion.

Usually, the spammers don't keep using the same address for too long - if they did, they'd start getting blocked. So, they switch spoof addresses pretty regularly, and your bulging mailbox should return to normal.