Alliance Loan Company I have received numerous e-mails up to 500, sent from my computer which is linked to a college. Nationwide

If you have not already done so, contact your (former) college's IT department/help desk. That department should be able to assist you.

It sounds as if your computer has been infected with a virus or trojan horse that turned it into a "zombie." This infection has allowed a hacker to take control of your computer to send out spam emails.

Do you have an antivirus program? If so, conduct a complete virus scan immediately. If not, your college IT Department may be able to provide you a program for free. If that is not an option, go buy some antivirus software now!

As for the "Alliance Loan Company," well, there is no such entity. Those behind all this are most likely scammers who are ripping off the people silly enough to respond to the spam emails.

Good luck!

If you have not already done so, contact your (former) college's IT department/help desk. That department should be able to assist you.

It sounds as if your computer has been infected with a virus or trojan horse that turned it into a "zombie." This infection has allowed a hacker to take control of your computer to send out spam emails.

Do you have an antivirus program? If so, conduct a complete virus scan immediately. If not, your college IT Department may be able to provide you a program for free. If that is not an option, go buy some antivirus software now!

As for the "Alliance Loan Company," well, there is no such entity. Those behind all this are most likely scammers who are ripping off the people silly enough to respond to the spam emails.

Good luck!

If you have not already done so, contact your (former) college's IT department/help desk. That department should be able to assist you.

It sounds as if your computer has been infected with a virus or trojan horse that turned it into a "zombie." This infection has allowed a hacker to take control of your computer to send out spam emails.

Do you have an antivirus program? If so, conduct a complete virus scan immediately. If not, your college IT Department may be able to provide you a program for free. If that is not an option, go buy some antivirus software now!

As for the "Alliance Loan Company," well, there is no such entity. Those behind all this are most likely scammers who are ripping off the people silly enough to respond to the spam emails.

Good luck!

If you have not already done so, contact your (former) college's IT department/help desk. That department should be able to assist you.

It sounds as if your computer has been infected with a virus or trojan horse that turned it into a "zombie." This infection has allowed a hacker to take control of your computer to send out spam emails.

Do you have an antivirus program? If so, conduct a complete virus scan immediately. If not, your college IT Department may be able to provide you a program for free. If that is not an option, go buy some antivirus software now!

As for the "Alliance Loan Company," well, there is no such entity. Those behind all this are most likely scammers who are ripping off the people silly enough to respond to the spam emails.

Good luck!

You ended up infecting the email address and now have to deal with it.

Those virus and trojans are designed to do exactly what you described... You need to update your anti-viral software ASAP and have a QUALIFIED TECH go over your computer to get rid of it all.