Another Day With My PC

Have you ever come across a spam mail that bore your e-mail address?

A friend of mine did and she was so aghast by it that she immediately e-mailed all of those in her contact list to clarify that she was not the one who sent the e-mails. I could very well understand her shock and embarrassment since the spam mail that had been distributed to all her contacts contained indecent photos and links to pornographic Web sites.

You might think that the tale that I’ve just told you is fictitious. Indeed, one would wonder how a virus could log in to your e-mail account and compose various types of messages and even attach images and documents thereto. But it is possible. The malware need not log in to your account. All it has to do is publish or post your e-mail address as the sender so as to add a semblance of legitimacy to the mail. It would really thus appear that it came from you. But a close perusal of such spam mails would reveal that it had been sent through another account and is just being masked by your e-mail address.

Save yourself from such an embarrassing situation by building an impregnable virtual gate around your PC with an antivirus as your steel bars and a registry cleaner as its padlock. Your tech-savvy friends may immediately know or realize that the e-mail purportedly coming from you is just the handiwork of a malware that infected your PC. However, those who are not well-aware of the deception might think that you’re promoting illegal or indecent sites. Protect your reputation by protecting your PC.