My MacBook seems to be infected with a Mailer.Daemon virus. We get multiple messages and our outgoing mail no longer works.

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My MacBook seems to be infected with a Mailer.Daemon virus. We get multiple messages and our outgoing mail no longer works.

We have been bombarded by mailer.daemon incoming messages for the last few days and at the same time have lost the ability to send email. Rogers has switched our server twice from pop broadband account to imap yahoo and back again. They also have asked us to change our mac mail password. We continue to have the problem on all our devices...iphones, ipad and macbook.

Is this a netowrk provider problem or an Apple problem? Any help would be appreciated.

Paula

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 17, 2013 2:22 PM

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Linc Davis

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Jan 17, 2013 3:33 PM in response to pmcnamara

A "virus" wouldn't cause you to be bombarded by incoming mail, nor would it affect your iPhone or iPad. Are these messages coming from your Rogers account?

Most likely, what's happening is that a spammer has forged your email address and you're getting many bounce messages from the recipients' mail servers. That's what "MAILER-DAEMON" means. There isn't much you can do except to wait it out or change your email address.

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