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 Dasdubber
A.k.a.: Alan Agyik
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| posted on June 30th, 2009 at 09:47 PM |
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Email virus?
Not sure if anyone on AVD can help but looks like something weird is going on with my email (not hotmail etc).
Today I've got almost 2000 emails mostly replies from spam blocking software or mailer deamon etc saying message undeliverable. So what I can see its
like my email is sending out all these messages (but not sure) to random addresses.....none of which I have in my contacts or whom I have ever seen.
Some of them are coming back in Chinese or Japanese etc....
I use outlook and can't figure out how to stop it as I am receiving rediculous numbers of email its driving me insane.
Any help is appreciated!
Al
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modulus
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| posted on June 30th, 2009 at 10:23 PM |
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Hi Alan,
The internet email protocol has a fundamental security design flaw. For example, someone could easily find out my website name (which is
modulus.com.au) and then send a spam email purporting to come from, e.g. fubar@modulus.com.au, with the reply address as also fubar@modulus.com.au
(the apmmers don't want to receive replies for obvious reasons). The body of the emial might have a virus attachment or might be an ad. for pills to
upsize your love cannon, with another website address. As the spammers send to millions of email addresses, a portion will get replies (as you're
getting). This process is known as "email spoofing". If I do not have the address fubar@modulus.com.au set up, I will never know this is happening*.
If, however, I have a "catch-all" email handler which sends all email received to modulus.com.au to my real email address, I will get flooded.
There is, AFAIK, no way to prevent email spoofing due to the protocol design flaw. All you can do is to ensure that your email set up does NOT have
catch-all handling of email, so you don't get them. Of course, if they send the spam purporting to come from "peter.hill@modulus.com.au" (my real
email address), I'll still get them, but this is rarer.
* Although you don't know it's happening, your email address can end up black-banned as being mistaken for a spammer.
I hope this helps; in compensation can you paint my truck for free?
hth
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Dasdubber
A.k.a.: Alan Agyik
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| posted on July 1st, 2009 at 09:48 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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I hope this helps; in compensation can you paint my truck for free?
hth
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Thanks mate, much appreciated.
In return I'd be happy to type up a post explaining how to paint your truck - hope that helps 
hehehe
Al
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T-34
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| posted on July 1st, 2009 at 11:32 PM |
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Do you have a website?
Sounds more like you have a script on your webspace.
The exploit to relay mail does exist but generally most web space providers now require authentication to access outgoing mail servers - the mail has
to be sent locally from a script (mail() php function) to exploit it as a spam relay.
The messages you are getting are probably just a SMALL PORTION of those messages sent - usually those here the email addresses do not exist or where
they have been detected as spam and bounced back.
Check your web space and look for something that's not supposed to be there - a file / folder / both.
Delete it and change your passwords for something much stronger.
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T-34
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| posted on July 1st, 2009 at 11:35 PM |
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lol - just noticed your site in your sig.
Check your webspace  It's probably been compromised.
Like the site BTW - how is this project?
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68AutoBug
A.k.a.: Lee Noonan
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| posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by modulus
* Although you don't know it's happening, your email address can end up black-banned as being mistaken for a spammer.
hth
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This happened to Me a few years ago....
Many people in My email address book
kept getting emails supposedly from Me....
Security is much tighter these days.... at the ISP and our own computers...
Microsoft is updating Vista just about every month now..
with security to stop viruses etc...
[but I still got one a couple of months ago] lol
Trojan Horse type...
cheers
LEE
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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