Re: Sending hundreds of emails by itself
From: Tim Slattery (Slattery_T_at_bls.gov)
Date: 03/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:16:30 -0500
Bob <aceindallas@prodigy.net> wrote:
>When I connect to the internet my computer sends hundreds of emails. I know this because I start getting back messages right away saying that most of them cannot be delivered. I have run Norton and MacCafey and there software said that I don't have a virus. I even did a manual search for most of the names. Does anyone have any ideas.
It may not actually be your computer that's sending the messages. The
Sven worm - and probably other forms of malware also - will pick an
address from the infected machine's address book to use as a "From"
address. Spammers also pick an email address at random to use in the
"From" header. That guarantees that any bounce messages (like you're
getting) and complaints go to somebody else and they (the spammers)
don't have to deal with them.
If this is the case, there's not much you can do but delete the bogus
bounce messages.
-- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) Slattery_T@bls.gov
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