Address stealing

Friday, 9:51 am

By Kate

Dec

01

2006

Here’s a question for the internet savvy. I’ve been getting a batch of “Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender” messages from my main Verizon email account the past couple of days. They are all junk mail with strange names instead of mine in the headers. I’m not sure how this is happening. I’m firewalled to the hilt. I don’t use IE or Microsoft mail programs. I’ve run diagnostics on my computer and it comes up clean. So, am I missing something or can my email address be swiped and used independently of my machine? And how to protect against this? I’ve never run into this before.