Re: Delivery Status Notification (failure)

From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:34:33 -0800

Those can be one of 4 things:
1) Some spammer is sending the original messages and using your e-mail address as the
sender.
2) Someone else has a PC infected with a virus and the virus is sending itself as the
original message and using your e-mail address as the sender.
3) The message is the virus itself, pretending to be a returned mail.
4) Your PC is infected with a virus and it has been sending itself. And this is really a
returned mail that your PC sent.

In cases 1, 2, and 3 above, the messages are not coming from your PC and are not going
through your e-mail account. There's nothing you can do to prevent anyone from sending an
e-mail with your e-mail address as the From header, just as you can't prevent anyone from
sending a postal mail and putting your name and address as the return address. At this
point all you can do is filter out the messages. Your ISP may offer some filtering at the
mail server.

To make sure that case 4 above is not the cause, you should check your PC with an updated
anti-virus program. 

-- 
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"jennsg" <jennsg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:7390E3AD-7197-4A78-8A9B-828B3630B9A9@microsoft.com...
> I'm getting these failed delivery notices nearly twice a day.  My problem is:
> 1) I'm not sending any e-mails to the supposed recipient; and 2) I don't
> even know who the recipient is.
>
> The notification also has attachments included.  I don't even know if the
> attachments are from the e-mails I'm supposedly sending or if they're from
> the postmaster.  Can someone help me and tell me what's going on?
>
> Thanks in advance to any help that I may receive.

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