Returned e-mail that I never sent

[JD]

The OE mailer daemon just returned an e-mail that I didn't send. The
recipient has the same last name as I, though I've never heard of her or
him. What does this mean? That a "worm" has actually sent mail from my
computer, or is there some other (less frightening) explanation?

 

[*Vanguard*]

"JD" said in news:%[email protected]:

The OE mailer daemon just returned an e-mail that I didn't send. The
recipient has the same last name as I, though I've never heard of her
or him. What does this mean? That a "worm" has actually sent mail
from my computer, or is there some other (less frightening)
explanation?

Someone is infected that has you listed in their address book or
contacts. I suppose you could try to identify the real [infected]
sender to tell them to cleanup their system.

 

[JD]

Thanks for that "reassuring note." How would one go about trying to identify
the "infected" person or computer?

"JD" said in news:%[email protected]:

The OE mailer daemon just returned an e-mail that I didn't send. The
recipient has the same last name as I, though I've never heard of her
or him. What does this mean? That a "worm" has actually sent mail
from my computer, or is there some other (less frightening)
explanation?

Someone is infected that has you listed in their address book or
contacts. I suppose you could try to identify the real [infected]
sender to tell them to cleanup their system.

 

[Guest]

Most likely someone else has a virus and sent it to you
The OE mailer daemon is a subject line that the virus generates

I get about one a day of these. Netsky virus seems to be the problem

Hope you have anti-viruse installed.

 

[JD]

I do, and just ran a full-system scan with negative results. Thanks for the
heads-up.

 

[Jim Macklin]

When I get one of these notices, I look at my sent mail box
to see if there is something close to the size, etc. that I
did send. I don't download more than headers until I pass
on the mail, and I still give every file a full scan.


| The OE mailer daemon just returned an e-mail that I didn't
send. The
| recipient has the same last name as I, though I've never
heard of her or
| him. What does this mean? That a "worm" has actually sent
mail from my
| computer, or is there some other (less frightening)
explanation?
|
|

 

[wojo]

You could email everybody in your list and make sure they are running
updated AV software.
But this won't help if the person that has you on their list is not on your
list.
In all likelyhood somebody that has you on their list is infected with some
form of the Netsky virus.
A lot of people receive the messages your describing, I do occasionally as
well, and just delete the message and go on with their lives.
The problem isn't on your machine and trying to track down who's machine it
is on can be nearly impossible.

--
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TO Email: Remove [SPAM]
If I can help you I will.
If you can help me thanks.

--

**Useful Links**
AdAware:
www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot S & D:
www.safer-networking.org/
Check for Parasites/Worms:
www.gemal.dk/browserspy/parasites.html
Blaster Security Patch:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp
TweakUI and other PowerToys:
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Thanks for that "reassuring note." How would one go about trying to
identify
the "infected" person or computer?

"JD" said in news:%[email protected]:

The OE mailer daemon just returned an e-mail that I didn't send. The
recipient has the same last name as I, though I've never heard of her
or him. What does this mean? That a "worm" has actually sent mail
from my computer, or is there some other (less frightening)
explanation?

Someone is infected that has you listed in their address book or
contacts. I suppose you could try to identify the real [infected]
sender to tell them to cleanup their system.

 

[*Vanguard*]

"JD" said in news:[email protected]:

Thanks for that "reassuring note." How would one go about trying to
identify the "infected" person or computer?

"JD" said in news:%[email protected]:

The OE mailer daemon just returned an e-mail that I didn't send. The
recipient has the same last name as I, though I've never heard of
her or him. What does this mean? That a "worm" has actually sent
mail from my computer, or is there some other (less frightening)
explanation?

Someone is infected that has you listed in their address book or
contacts. I suppose you could try to identify the real [infected]
sender to tell them to cleanup their system.

______________________________________________________________________

Trace back through the Received headers to find the first identifiable
domain that sent or relayed the message. Be careful of bogus Received
headers. If you don't know how to trace through the Received header,
post a copy of your headers (with e-mail and usernames munged to protect
yourself and innocent involved parties) in the alt.*spam newsgroups and
they'll tell you who sent it. Then you might find out the domain or
origin and compare with anyone you know that uses that domain for
e-mail.