What most likely happened is that someone that has your email address in the address book got a virus and then the messages were sent out appearing to have come from you, stinks ...
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Vaughn Treude <
vltreude@deru.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:56:38 -0400
To:
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Security risk or weird spam?
> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 18:09, you wrote:
> > I use postfix, spamassassin, amavisd-new what is the easiest way to block
> > the email messages that say such and such a user sent a virus to xyz
> > company, since most of the virus messages are spoofed anyways.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
>
> I figured it was probably some kind of trick. Does it mean people are
> sending out viruses with my name on them? That really ticks me off. (But I
> suppose it happens to everybody these days.)
>
> Vaughn
>
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: tickticker <tickticker@cox.net>
> > Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:31:30 -0700
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Security risk or weird spam?
> >
> > > Virus fallout. You are just another innocent victim of bad email
> > > administration. Delete them and move on.
> > >
> > > anthony
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:43 am, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > > Another dumb question, this time for the security types:
> > > >
> > > > Recently I've been getting messages like the following. I did not send
> > > > either of the original messages these reference, especially not at 1 AM
> > > > and 4 AM in the morning. Stranger yet is that the first message says I
> > > > sent an email to my remailer (vaughn@nakota-software.com) which was
> > > > (wisely) rejected by that service. I'm not knowingly using ".cpl"
> > > > attachments; isn't this a Windows thing? And I definitely didn't
> > > > (intentionally) send anything to the Russian address in the second
> > > > message. Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Vaughn
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> > > > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
> > > > Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:17:20 -0700
> > > > From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@suvi.deru.net>
> > > > To: vltreude@deru.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> > > >
> > > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> > > > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
> > > > failed:
> > > >
> > > > vaughn@nakota-software.com
> > > > This message has been rejected because it has
> > > > a potentially executable attachment "Joke.cpl"
> > > > This form of attachment has been used by
> > > > recent viruses or other malware.
> > > > If you meant to send this file then please
> > > > package it up as a zip file and resend it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> > > > Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> > > > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com>
> > > > To: <vaughn@nakota-software.com>
> > > > Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 04:19:06 -0400 (EDT)
> > > >
> > > > from m6.arctel.ru [195.14.62.6]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > *** ATTENTION ***
> > > >
> > > > Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with
> > > > its delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the
> > > > section labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal
> > > > errors -----".
> > > >
> > > > The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
> > > > labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".
> > > >
> > > > The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail
> > > > could not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message
> > > > which is a general translation for other e-mail servers.
> > > >
> > > > Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
> > > > administrator.
> > > >
> > > > --AOL Postmaster
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