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I seem to have a Virus in my email that is sending me spam emails from my own email address.
I use a chrome book so it doesn't have anti virus to sweep with.
I can't block the emails as they are from myself and hotmail says i am in my own contacts. I have changed my email password and there are no forwarding addresses but it is still happening.
What should I do?
Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
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Either way, I wish Microsoft would take this seriously and do something about it! I get approximately 10 of these stupid emails from myself a day and it's REALLY annoying. Obviously it's been going on for over 4 years with no sort of solution. Shame on them!!!
I started having this problem to a small degree after inserting my USB disk into another person's laptop. Came home and started getting all kinds of junk mail from illegitimate sources, including some from my own email address. And I have a couple of anti-virus programs on my home computer. I just mark them as 'Phishing scam' and delete. What else can be done?
Hello,
For other options in managing spam emails, you can create email rules to place the spam emails to a certain folder. You can then delete the contents of that folder periodically. Kindly check on Nathan Robert's article for creating rules in Outlook.com: (click here).
While you are on it, check this link for information on how to keep spam out of your inbox: (click here).
If you have other questions, do not hesitate to reply on this thread,
I need help with this too...