gmail qwerty virus? emails gone?

melm fromsan francisco wrote:

the name on my gmail account (in my Mac inbox) changed to a .qwerty... name; all emails /folders were gone.

I deleted the account, added it back, changed my gmail password. This is the 2nd time this year that this event has occurred--both times, all emails lost. Is gmail on Mac unstable? My xfinity email account has not been impacted. I download both to the Mail app on Mac (Ventura 13.4.1 (c)). Any idea why this keeps happening?

I checked my Activity Monitor but could not discern any unusual activity.

Seems odd, never heard of such a thing.

have you tried referring to the Gmail website; Support/Help/FAQ/known issues/

Gmail Help

Account support

third party antivirus, cleaners,VPN's, Optimizers are known to cause issues on the macOS

and recommended to uninstall.