Receiving Multiple Spams from filtered email address

Hello ~
I didn’t know where else to turn to get this question answered. Recently I started receiving spam-emails from someone I corresponded with about a job I was hiring for. The spams are ads for various websites, and usually involve a description of some kind of “kit” to buy. I have never gone to the links in the emails, and I have, on more than one occasion, emailed him in a fresh email, suggested that he scan his computer for adware or spyware. He wrote back and said he had heard this from other people in his address book and would look into it.

Meanwhile, I filtered his address with my gmail account, thinking that would work to automatically delete any email coming in to my inbox from his address. But this has not stopped the spams, and today, I got THREE OF THEM! The latest one said, “Hello there, How are you? A day ago I have checked out this news story about a girl earning a ton of money on the internet and I have started doing what she does. Please have a read and tell me when you get your kit so I can help you a little bit. Click http://news7dkji.com/?article=954586 See you soon”

I am wondering if my computer might now be infected with something? Does anyone have advice on what I should do? Why wouldn’t the gmail filter keep his email address out of my inbox? I have run my avast internet security, but it comes out clean.

Any help would be appreciated!
Liza

They ( the spammers ) have probably harvested your email address from somwhere and the from address may be faked so it looks as it is comming from your friend
But he/she should scan the computer for malware and so should you, do a full scan with avast also scan with malwarebytes
also continue to mark all spam mail as " spam " on your account…

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.50 http://filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
always update before you start scanning so you have the latest database
click the remove selected button to quarantine anything found
you may post the scan log here


Liza,

Since this is a publicly open forum, it is for sure that spam harvesters visit this forum as well as any other publicly open forum.

Guess what? Your email address is showing on this forum !!

Please go to your profile and hide your email address.

Never allow your email address to be displayed publicly anywhere !


also read the post from DavidR here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=68038.0


Liza,

Did you do the MBAM scan that Pondus asked for above?