The more recent virii have the annoying trait of searching many different file
types on your computer for email addresses, thereby harvesting a far greater
number of varied email addresses than just the address book contains.
anthony
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 03:46 pm, Jim Smith wrote:
> 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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