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« on: June 30, 2003, 08:32:31 AM »
I am hoping that you folks can help me with a very annoying problem.  My computer is clean and has never had a virus.  I use McAfee and keep it up to date.  However, I get emails sent back to me constantly from addresses that I have never heard of that have been rejected because they carried a virus, and they appear to have been sent from my website email address.  Since I run a business using this address which is readily available from my website, it really bothers me that people are receiving bad emails that they would think I sent!  Is there any way to keep this from happening?
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2003, 09:10:29 AM »
Hello,

One of my friends has just had exactly the same problem. He had hundreds of bounced e-mails in his inbox.

There are a couple of viruses out which do this, recently one has become "popular"!

This one does it, for example, http://www.f-prot.com/news/vir_alert/sobig_e.html

There are a couple of others.

Unfortunately, you can't stop people sending mail which appears to be from you.

Just install a virus checker, get everyone you know to also install a virus checker. Apart from that, there's nothing you can do.
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2003, 09:43:12 AM »
Ok, ive found you some info on that virus and thier is summin u can do. Follow this link.

http://securityresponse1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/w32.sobig.e@mm.html
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« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2003, 09:50:19 AM »
Thanks!  At least I don't have "hundreds"!  One or two a day, though, is quite typical.  It would sure be nice if there was a way to keep people from sending email that appears to be from me!  I hope some smart programmer will figure out a way to add that kind of security some time soon.
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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2003, 11:18:46 AM »
There is something you can do.

You can remove it if you are infected,

however, there is nothing to stop the virus sending an e-mail "apparently" from you.

For example, I could forge an e-mail from someone@microsoft.com if I wanted to. The e-mail would still appear to be from them.

This cannot be helped.
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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2003, 01:02:59 PM »
I am not infected.  Also the persons receiving the emails are not addresses in my mailbox.  It has to be a forgery problem.  Isn't there a way through the header on an email to find out where it really did originate?
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2003, 03:26:12 PM »
Yes, the IP addresses in the headers show where the message originated from.

The only problem being that it will be some person who has no idea about computers on some ISP somewhere.

If you can track it down to an IP address, reporting it to the ISP will not be very useful, as they will probably do nothing about it...

It's worth a try I suppose. I just delete spam.
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2003, 04:00:16 PM »
I suppose I will just delete these things.  However, it bothers me that I know that potential customers may get emails from "me" containing viruses!
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« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2003, 04:36:26 PM »
It is a bad situation, I know.

It hasn't happened to me yet, but my friend was furious when it happened to me.

People who write viruses cause a lot of trouble and misery!
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