RE: Mail Deliver Subsystem responses.

From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 11/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:21:06 -0800

elisheva29 wrote:

> Okay...I am getting the subject failure responses, but they are not
> generating from my email! So...has someone hacked my account and is
> just using it to spam which is why the bounce-backs are all showing in
> my junkmail
> folder? Or is this some other weird form of what y'all were talking
> about
> with a virus? I don't have a different from and sent by email addy
> set up or
> anything along those lines, so I am very confused. These all seem to
> have
> Zip files attached (no I am not stupid enough to open them). And the
> messages are all coming "to" different accounts which are NOT mine.
> There is
> no text and just the zip file attached. Since yesterday, I have
> gotten 7 junk emails, 6 of which have been these bounce-back responses
> and one a message from someone I have no clue who it was and they
> didn't leave a name.
> So I am very confused. I would like to straight out delete all of
> this, but I am afraid that I may need to to give it to hotmail/MSN for
> their security
> people to play with. Trust me, I am not so hot with computers.
>
> "Retep" wrote:
>
>> Recently, I have been receiving subject failure responses for e-mail
>> I never
>> generated. Most of them are to AOL clients. This concerns me??

Your situation is very common. Someone you know who has your email
address on his/her computer is infected with a virus. There are many
viruses that do this. They have their own SMTP (outgoing) mail engines
and will send copies of themselves to everyone in the infected
computer's addressbook. They often spoof the "From" line also, so
someone else might get an infected email that says its from you, when
it isn't.

There is really nothing you can do about these emails except delete them
unopened.

Make sure you have a full-featured antivirus installed that is a current
version (not older than 2004) with an active subscription and updated
definitions. Make sure you've set its options correctly to scan zipped
files. It should be popping up to tell you those emails are infected.

Malke 

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