Spam problems!?

[Guest]

Hi there

I am receiving e-mails from my internet provider where they claim to have blocked incoming messages with Worm.SomeFool.P. I also get many e-mails from other people who claim they've received viruses (e.g. Sobig.F) from me. I have a firewall and updated virus protection from McAfee, and I have checked many times, and I am not infected

From what I have understood, these messages really are coming out of a third party computer(s) which is infected with the NetSky-virus or other alike viruses. These viruses send mass e-mails with spoofed sender addressees, which give this snowball effect. Is that so, and is there anyway I can locate the infected computer(s) and tell them to install virus protection programs

I'd be greatful for any answer

/Svant

PS This all started when I placed a sales add for my boat on a private ad web site. I stupidly enough published my main e-mail address instead of just creating a temporary Hotmail-address for that purpose....something I will do the next time ;-)

 

[Malke]

Hi there!

I am receiving e-mails from my internet provider where they claim to
have blocked incoming messages with Worm.SomeFool.P. I also get many
e-mails from other people who claim they've received viruses (e.g.
Sobig.F) from me. I have a firewall and updated virus protection from
McAfee, and I have checked many times, and I am not infected.

From what I have understood, these messages really are coming out of a
third party computer(s) which is infected with the NetSky-virus or
other alike viruses. These viruses send mass e-mails with spoofed
sender addressees, which give this snowball effect. Is that so, and is
there anyway I can locate the infected computer(s) and tell them to
install virus protection programs?

I'd be greatful for any answer!

/Svante

PS This all started when I placed a sales add for my boat on a private
ad web site. I stupidly enough published my main e-mail address
instead of just creating a temporary Hotmail-address for that
purpose....something I will do the next time ;-)

There really isn't anything you can do about this now, unfortunately. As
you noted, your email address got taken by spammers when you published
it in the clear. You can make another email address and use that
instead. You might want to work with your ISP on deleting the original
account information.

Malke

 

[Tumbleweed]

Hi there!

I am receiving e-mails from my internet provider where they claim to have

blocked incoming messages with Worm.SomeFool.P. I also get many e-mails from
other people who claim they've received viruses (e.g. Sobig.F) from me. I
have a firewall and updated virus protection from McAfee, and I have checked
many times, and I am not infected.

From what I have understood, these messages really are coming out of a

third party computer(s) which is infected with the NetSky-virus or other
alike viruses. These viruses send mass e-mails with spoofed sender
addressees, which give this snowball effect.

Is that so, and is there anyway I can locate the infected computer(s) and

tell them to install virus protection programs?

Yes and no respectively :-(

 

[DennisLazo.com]

i am not sure if you would find this as a solution or otherwise.

but you can authenticate your emails and that way, when you send your
emails, you send along your digital id which would authenticate the email
using your email address as actually coming from you and was not spoofed.

everyone has been through this spam problem. but one thing we all could do
is authenticate our emails such that unauthenticated emails can be labeled
as "possible from a spoofed address" while ms is still working on an
authentication method for emails.

if you are intrested, thawte (www.thawte.com) offers free digital ids for
emails which we all could use.

regards,

--
Dennis Lazo

the email address from where this message has been sent from is unmonitored.
your replies may not be received. replies may be sent at
http://dennislazo.com/email/.
information herein is provided as is with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

Hi there!

I am receiving e-mails from my internet provider where they claim to have

blocked incoming messages with Worm.SomeFool.P. I also get many e-mails from
other people who claim they've received viruses (e.g. Sobig.F) from me. I
have a firewall and updated virus protection from McAfee, and I have checked
many times, and I am not infected.

From what I have understood, these messages really are coming out of a

third party computer(s) which is infected with the NetSky-virus or other
alike viruses. These viruses send mass e-mails with spoofed sender
addressees, which give this snowball effect. Is that so, and is there anyway
I can locate the infected computer(s) and tell them to install virus
protection programs?

I'd be greatful for any answer!

/Svante

PS This all started when I placed a sales add for my boat on a private ad

web site. I stupidly enough published my main e-mail address instead of just
creating a temporary Hotmail-address for that purpose....something I will do
the next time ;-)

 

[Guest]

I figured the answers would be something like yours, but I just wanted to check if somebody had any idea. Thanks anyway. /Svante

 

[Malvern]

Spyware may be the problem here, actually using YOUR computer. Download and
run the following free Spyware detection and clean-up programs (One may ask
for a donation--your choice.):

Ad-Aware -
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/

CWShredder
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

What one doesn't get, the others will.

Malv

Hi there!

I am receiving e-mails from my internet provider where they claim to have

blocked incoming messages with Worm.SomeFool.P. I also get many e-mails from
other people who claim they've received viruses (e.g. Sobig.F) from me. I
have a firewall and updated virus protection from McAfee, and I have checked
many times, and I am not infected.

From what I have understood, these messages really are coming out of a

third party computer(s) which is infected with the NetSky-virus or other
alike viruses. These viruses send mass e-mails with spoofed sender
addressees, which give this snowball effect. Is that so, and is there anyway
I can locate the infected computer(s) and tell them to install virus
protection programs?

I'd be greatful for any answer!

/Svante

PS This all started when I placed a sales add for my boat on a private ad

web site. I stupidly enough published my main e-mail address instead of just
creating a temporary Hotmail-address for that purpose....something I will do
the next time ;-)