View Full Version : Someone sending many different viruses from me
I get three or four email replies/day telling me that I've sent an email with a virus. All sorts of different viruses... usually a different one each time. It can't be my machine at home... which is not infected. And not my Mac either.
Is it possible these mail servers are unaware that the emails are not coming from me?
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booster
07-22-2004, 11:21 AM
A recent virus, I can't recall the name, could have hijacked your exchange server where you e-mail addresses are kept. Are the return addresses your work's or home, etc. What is in the header? Check with IT?
jeff
at the top of your e-mail adress list put AAAAAAAAAAAAAA for the first e-mail name. That way your computer can't send out virus's because that address does not exist and it's the first one that it would be sent to. I have done that for the last 1 1/2 yrs and haven't caught sending any out since. I was told to do this by a computer Geek
Doug
T-12 incomplete 10-3-02
Steven Edwards
07-24-2004, 06:47 PM
Jeff, which server are the emails being "sent" from?
-Steven
...if i knew all about this one thing, wouldn't that be something
Wise Young
07-24-2004, 10:06 PM
jeff, a lot of spam mail falsely substitute an email address that they find on internet as the sender (to get people to open up the email). Unfortunately, my email address has been on internet since 1991 and it is very frequently used as the source of spam mail. I get a lot of servers returning undelivered mail apparently sent out with my email address but which I of course never sent. This must be just the tip of the iceberg. I know of know way of getting around this problem without keeping my email address secret. Part of the price of notoriety, I suppose. Wise.
booster
07-26-2004, 06:19 AM
Actually Duge has a great idea that I use at work. I have web based e-mail for personal, thus it's a bit more difficult to hijack. Have you checked the headers? This is a key way to differentiate between spam and virus. Spam will have a ton of extraneous names in attempt to fool anti-spam tech. Spam will also hide (using hidden text) letters ans symbols in the body to fool filters. Virus' will typically not go to these lengths.
Thanks, everyone. Maybe in the next iteration of the internet Email will not be able to masquerade itself as being from anyone it wants to!
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