EMAILS BEING SENT W/OUT MY KNOWLEDGE

[JAMIELYN]

Everyday, I keep getting these returned emails saying
that they were failed to be delivered. They are also
infected with a virus, because my norton keeps popping
up. I have never sent these emails, and the addresses
look made up, like (e-mail address removed) . So, what do I need
to do? I assume I may have some type of virus. Any info
is greatly appreciated!!

Thank you,
Jamielyn

 

[Sandy]

I have being getting email from microsoft, stateing that
I need to get updates. They have a virus attached to
them, and error messages for email that I haven't sent
out as well.Where do I send forward these email messages
to? Any information is greatly appreciated!
Thank you

 

[Jeremy]

More than likely someone who has your email address in there address book is
infected with a virus. Because many virus's have been taking a random email
address from someone's address book and using that as the from line,
spoofing who its coming from.

 

[tOM]

-----Original Message-----
I have being getting email from microsoft, stateing that
I need to get updates. They have a virus attached to
them, and error messages for email that I haven't sent
out as well.Where do I send forward these email messages
to? Any information is greatly appreciated!
Thank you

I wrote to msn but havent heard back yet. Now I'm going
to write to Microsoft. I got a form letter from msn saying
If they came from msn they can track them down. So write
to msn (e-mail abuse ) or whereever they came from and
they can track them. If you dont they wont stop.
TOM

 

[Ph0eniX]

You can't be serious! The e-mails were not from Microsoft or MSN and they
have no way of tracking them. There is no way to track them because they're
sent from some shithole ISPs in China, Korea and Eastern Europe. You're
wasting your time and Microsoft's.

 

[Sven Zallmann]

More than likely someone who has your email address in there address book is
infected with a virus. Because many virus's have been taking a random email
address from someone's address book and using that as the from line,
spoofing who its coming from.

In the case of the Swen worm it is not even necessary that someone
has your email address in his/her address book. The worm harvests
email addresses from newsgroups using open newsservers or logging
in to restricted newsservers with the credentials stored on an in-
fected computer. One post in a newsgroup, and two hours later you
will start receiving the worm....

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What you received is either a very common malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several wide-spread, mass
emailing worms. The most widely-known are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only if, you
subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send
you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps.

There's probably no way of blocking all of the bogus messages, but
you can greatly reduce the number you get by creating a rule, based
upon the most commonly used subject lines, to delete the emails from
the server without ever downloading them.


Bruce Chambers

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