On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Bessie <[email protected]> wrote:
.. > . I tried to delete the account, because nothing else I did worked to stop > this infection. > > It is *no longer on my list of accounts.* > I don't use a Mac. However, I wonder what you mean by a "list of accounts". I'm guessing it is something on your Mac that you use to access your Gmail. If you deleted that, then you did not delete the Gmail account at all. All you did was remove it from a list that is on your Mac. Gmail accounts "live" on Google's computers, not on your computer. To delete a Gmail account, you must login to your account, using a web browser, so that you are online with Google, and delete it from there. I'm guessing you didn't do that. But if that is what you did, then your account is indeed gone, and it can't be sending out those bad emails anymore. In that case, Zack's suggestion may be correct that the messages were not coming from your account at all. The "From:" address on an email is like the return address written on an envelope in postal mail. Anyone can write anything there and it doesn't mean the letter was actually mailed from that address. Regards, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
