Email

[Crispy]

Is it impossible for anyone to do anythinmg about this incessant email from
bogus Microsoft sites?

?????

 

[judy]

only thing you can do is delete the emails without
opening anything.

microsoft has nothing to do with these emails.
go to microsoft.public.security site and read some of the
other posts.

 

[David B.]

It's not from bogus MS sites, it's forged, and no, there's nothing that can be done about.

 

[Crispy]

But cannot it be possible to detect where it comes from and let those people
know they are infeced?

Fortunately, I have Norton and a SpammKiller operating, so I have not been
infected, but it is just hellish annoying to get about 60 of these a
day!!! - And it only started a day or so ago...!

Regards

 

[Adrian]

Block attachments and stop deleting.

 

[Gary P]

But cannot it be possible to detect where it comes from and let those people
know they are infeced?

I've done this in the past by reading the Headers of the mails and following
the sending path until I see a computer I recognise. One infected computer
from an organisation I work with sent out several in my name and it was easy
to isolate. You can't usually use the simple return mail section in the
header as many of these viruses fake it.

Gary

 

[Bill James]

No, you can't tell who the email is really from because the address has been forged. It is just part of the price we pay nowadays for being online. I agree, it stinks.

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[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

No, you can't tell who the email is really from because the address has
been forged. It is just part of the price we pay nowadays for being
online. I agree, it stinks.

I'm not sure that that is the case for Swen.A .. looks to me like the
IPs and the headers match up and point back at the real source. (Many
other Viruses and Worms do spoof from addresses.)