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« on: September 04, 2003, 05:26:10 PM »

I have been a victim of the viruses being sent out using my email address also. However, I have gotten 2 returned emails that were not deliverable and they seem to indicate the source of where the emails came from. I did an ARIN lookup and sent an email to the account, but was also wondering who ( or if) I should report this activity to?
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2003, 07:02:46 PM »

That's about it.  Unless it is a machine on a company's network, in which case you might try some more detective work to find out which company it belongs to and who to contact.

Though, it's really not worth all of this trouble.  My address has been spoofed by these stupid Windows viruses quite a few times since I post to mailing lists with large readerships.  Luckily, I'm not affected.  (Linux is great  Wink
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2003, 08:34:05 PM »

Thanks, and I really don't want to waste any more time unless it would be productive. Rolling Eyes It is just a pain in the can......
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« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2003, 12:33:08 AM »

Just a thought, this won't necessarily help stop the flow of viri using your e-mail address, but will stop web bots from collecting your e-mail address to send spam to, or to be used as a forged e-mail address.

The link comes thanks to Webuffy (another forum user, who posted this in a thread I was posting in).

Your e-mail address should be encoded.  This stops bots from logging it for spam purposes, but leaves it perfectly usable for any person viewing your page.  The link will still act exactly the same way, and the user won't know the difference.

This website has a free resource which will allow you to enter an e-mail address, and will convert it into its ASCII counterpart:

http://mail.rochester.edu/~jr007j/emailencoder/
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« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2003, 12:55:12 AM »

Pretty slick! Thanks. I know my email addresses have been harvested for "spam" also, so this is something I will do.
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