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Mail Virus? Why does Mail get 300 spam messages a day and the provider mailbox has 0 of these emails.

So in the last couple of months my Mailbox on my pro has come under attack using a gmail allias it has been reciving spam using the same format over and over just under different company names... various schemes...



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Bear Run Media, LLC
2885 Sanford Ave SW #16970
Grandville, MI 49418

MacBook Pro, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Jul 24, 2013 2:37 PM

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Posted on Jul 24, 2013 2:45 PM

You've apparently gotten onto spam lists, or someone who had your email address in their address book has contracted an email virus or bot malware that is allowing the spammers to send to your address. There's nothing you can do other than filter out the spam or change your email address.

Regards.

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Jul 25, 2013 6:50 AM in response to TDodson07

There have never been any confirmed viruses nor worms that can infect Mac OS X, and none of the trojan horse programs that I've seen reported have this sort of behavior. But I can't say it's impossible. And that you've erased the drive and reinstalled but the problem persists would seem to confirm that it's not malware. But what is causing this just on the Pro I don't know, assuming again that you don't have iCloud or some other email service set up on the Pro that's not on the other systems.


I'm sort of out of ideas right now. Perhaps someone else will have some thoughts on the matter.


Regards.

Mail Virus? Why does Mail get 300 spam messages a day and the provider mailbox has 0 of these emails.

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