Re: Constant email rejects for email I never sent

From: Jurren Bouman (jurren_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:28:08 +0200

Eileen wrote:
> I have been getting system and mailer daemon notices that
> email I have sent was rejected by a server. This has been
> going on for months. I thought it was one of those tricks
> to get you to open up the attachment. I have always kept
> my PC (WinXP Pro) patched and the virus updates are done
> daily...Norton is set to automatically push the updates
> and I go to Intelligent updater on days that it does not
> update. I never open attachments that I am not expecting.
>
> I am concerned because I just learned that someone opened
> PayPal and eBay accounts in my name...something that I
> have never done.
>
> Is anyone else out there getting these email rejection
> notices? Or am I just lucky?

Nope, you're not the only one. They are just coming from computers,
which are infected by a virus or so and they just happen to have your
name/email address on their hard drive. There's hardly anything you can
do about it. Just don't post your email address in any public forum.news
group.

Keep your computer updates with the latest software updates/patches and
also the antivirus software. Hopefully you also run a firewall? If you
run Windows XP and you don't have a firewall installed then at least
turn on XPs firewall:
"Use the Internet Connection Firewall"
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/icf.mspx 

-- 
Jurren Bouman
MVP Windows - Security
"Microsoft Trustworthy Computing: Security"
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

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