Strange E-mails
Friday, July 4, 2003 by WOM | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Recieved an email with an atachment from jebland. We emailed her and she said she didn't email it. Also recieved some emails fron someother people that looked like they were on this site but we deleted them.
Beware of some email that looks like they are comming from the folks from this site. May be a nightmare.
Reply #4 Friday, July 4, 2003 12:44 PM
Reply #5 Friday, July 4, 2003 12:47 PM
The original message was received at Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:15:28 -0400 (EDT)
from cs666857-166.austin.rr.com [66.68.57.166]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
(reason: 550 no such email address)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to lmtpredir0.mx.voyager.net.:
>>> RCPT To:
no such email address
550 5.1.1 ... User unknown
Does anybody have any clue what is going on????
Reply #6 Friday, July 4, 2003 12:56 PM
There may be a wallpaper or a WB or "something" along those lines causing this event. I would suggest looking for such a culprit embedded in any if WC's Downloadables.
Reply #7 Friday, July 4, 2003 1:30 PM
Reply #8 Friday, July 4, 2003 1:34 PM
There are nasty viruses that can grab addresses from various places and email out with your address as the sender. The latest one that's hitting most people is the Sobig-E virus.
Unfortunately with those viruses you can't contact the person who actually sent it directly to tell them they have a virus. You would have to check who their ISP is and contact them giving details about the time of day and the IP address the message came from. Whether they actually do anything you'll probably never know though.
Reply #9 Friday, July 4, 2003 2:00 PM
And, Dr. Doog, I really didn't need to know that.
Reply #10 Friday, July 4, 2003 2:13 PM
Not all information is useful or profitable for sharing.
I wouldn't teach a child how to shoot a gun just because I knew how, that would be highly irresponsible on my part, as is the info you are passing on to so many others,
Reply #11 Friday, July 4, 2003 2:15 PM
Reply #12 Friday, July 4, 2003 3:05 PM
About a month ago, I was receiving 70-140 viruses daily for a 2 weeks period!!!
I am still geting e-mails back that I never have send to Starone family!!!
I guess, we must learn how to live with all those attacks, which they have no ending!
Reply #13 Friday, July 4, 2003 6:12 PM
Reply #14 Friday, July 4, 2003 7:01 PM
Recently my system was "hacked" which meant I had to build a new system, install a hardware firewall and loose almost a week of production. I barely make a living doing freelance graphics and the added expense and lost time was devastating. The only trail I could find for the hacker was to somewhere in Herndon Virginia, plus another attack from a bogus company in Hong Kong. On top of that I get about 20 viruses and about 150 spams every day on 3 different email addresses. I'm just getting ready to leave for a week so I figure my mailbox will be filled in a couple days with this crap and real emails will get bounced back.
Basically, this ain't funny. Now there's no way to tell if you're being attacked by some loser kid or the RIAA or even the government. They all seem to have the tools and the desire to mess with your machine. It's enough to make me want to quit using the internet. Disconnect my broadband and get some work done...
Remeber these two words, they're being removed from the english language:
Privacy and Respect
Someday you can explain to your grandkids what these archaic concepts were....
Reply #15 Friday, July 4, 2003 7:03 PM
Your post was removed.
Reply #16 Friday, July 4, 2003 7:39 PM
btw - Nikos, I feel your pain... and everyone else with this problem too. Having one's email address on so many websites opens you to the spam-n-virus spiders that seem so efficient at finding ways to nail you.
Koasati recommended I use MailWasher so I downloaded it and will try to teach it to be ruthless when I get back from my trip. The latest batch of spam I've gotten looks awfully hard to filter by the subject line. Hopefully MailWasher will do the trick.
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Reply #1 Friday, July 4, 2003 12:36 PM