Re: Email i have not sent

From: Jim Watt (jimwatt_at_aol.no.way)
Date: 04/27/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:25:54 +0200

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:10:49 +0000 (UTC), "Rob" <r1_ffc@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>For about four weeks now I have been getting mail returned from mail
>delivery system to me saying the recipient did not receive this mail. I have
>never sent mail to these people. I also now get viruses sent to me with
>attachments which I instantly delete(about 5 per week).
>
>The mail that is suppose to have been sent by me also looks like it has a
>virus attached.
>
>I have run two tests on the Internet tried Norton anti virus, AVG ,Trojan
>removers all on my system and I can find nothing.
>
>When this first started I received a virus in Zip format and what looked
>like a jpeg at the same time. The zip file was deleted right away but I
>opened the jpeg. This looked a bit strange I couldn't make out what it was
>suppose to be.
>
>I use Outlook express with Windows XP professional and also run Zone Alarm.
>
>If anybody can shine some light on this situation I would be most grateful.

Welcome to the real world;

Many of the recent worms read the address book of the person
infected and your name was there and is being used to send
further copies of the worm/virus/whatever to dumbass people
who assume the mail is from the sender shown.

Learn how to read the full headers and identify which ISP the
mail has been sent through and ask them to trace the person
originating it and it will stop.

see:

http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html

However, the nature of the internet is such that you will get
random mails with malevolent attachments and also a
shitload of junkmail. Particularly to the account you
used on this message - if its a real one.

If you use outlook express make sure you have updated
it with the latest security patches from the Microsoft
website (not any crap sent by email as thats another
virus) although my choice is to use Pegasus Mail which
is free and not prone to the problems of the MS junkware.

see:

http://www.pmail.com/ 

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Jim Watt          http://www.gibnet.com
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