Mail Returned

Wren · Post by **Wren** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:08 pm

I don't know what this means when you get a message that your mail could not be sent. I have sent no mail to the address it refers to. It has an attachment, which I'm not about to open! If a bug hits here it can't mail itself out since I don't have anyone in the address book.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:10 pm

Hmm, it's something trying to send mail if it's not you... might be a virus. Do an online scan here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:18 pm

I have Panda Titanium, updated everyday. It has always caught anything that hit the mailbox. I have IE set for no attachments to be loaded. I'll try a Panda scan first.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:21 pm

Yeah, try all the scans you can, some don't work while some others do.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:24 pm

Ok, the Panda online scan is the best I have found. Might as well run SwatIt too!

BBL

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 12:05 am

Panda didn't find anything. I'll run SwatIt when I go to bed...it takes a while to scan.

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fishyfool · Post by **fishyfool** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 11:48 am

i get 'em all the time. it's just one of the perils of having an email address.
heres how it works.
some one, be it a friend who has your email address, or a person who browsed a site where your email address was available, has a virus.
the virus then searched their address book, and their browser cache for email addresses.
the virus, most probably with smpt capabilities, then forged an email using you as the return address. the address wasn't valid, so you get the bounce. the person with the virus gets nothing even though the email came from them originally. it's the same trick spammers use.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 12:44 pm

Oh yeah, that would make perfect sense. I never thought of that. Forging emails is quite easly done too. That's a good posibility. In that case, you don't have to worry about having a virus.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 1:36 pm

Yep, after I looked at the properties of the returned mail, it was spam so I wondered if the spammers were using some sort of tactic like that. Thanks for the explanation, fishyfool.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:13 am

I've gotten tons of emails like that. It's likely just some spammer forging your email address, perhaps through some virus like fishyfool suggested, or your email could've been spidered, or perhaps you replied to a spam to get removed: a trick spammers often use to get vaild email addresses.

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jamezua · Post by **jamezua** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:03 pm

Hummmmm , to use your emaill account they
should have your password and send the mail to your own ISP
provider , if you are using a webmail as Yahoo or Hotmail I won't
say nothing , but seems it's a viruslike activity ...

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