Is there an effective way to deal with email spam?

Get a virus that sending out spam email and it got that way from watching porn?!?

  • I receive spam emails from my brother daily or every other day from his email address. He told me he was just being honest that it was probably from watching porn, but what would watching porn have to do with his email? He said he never input his email on porn websites. Is that true because if so then I can get a virus from going to websites I normally go to (not porn) or something

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    This is usually caused by malware on his computer. It's a common problem - Yahoo Help has a page about it and it's asked many times every day http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?y=PROD_MSNG&page=content&id=SLN2159&actp=lorax&locale=en_US He needs to run a virus scan AND a malware scan. A virus scan alone is not enough. If he doesn't have an anti-malware program, he can download either Malwarebytes or Super Anti-Spyware for free. Both are very good. Then delete all infected files and it should stop

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If you have no virus protection on your computer then people are able to worm their way into your account and use it to send spam. I don't know how it works exactly but I've seen it happen and no it's not just from going on bad sites.

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