On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:59:19AM -0800, Joe wrote:
> The problem is that the original E-mail didn't come from your system. It
> came from someone else's system that has your address in THEIR address
> book. The virus send the E-mail from their system but put your address in
> the return field. When the message bounced it was returned to your address.
> Basicly there's nothing you can do to stop stuff like this except find out
> who's system it came from and have them get rid of the virus. But there's
> no easy way to find out who's system it came from. You have check every
Did you post to a newsgroup (usenet) recently? There are viruses (e.g. Swen,
read it from backwards ;-) that are sitting in MS Outlook and scanning the
headers of news articles. If only one guy in the world is reading news with
MS Outlook you will probably get virusmails from him, but not with his mail
address in the FROM header. The only proven part in the header file is the ip
address the mail is sent from (mostly from dialup or DSL-lines). But this
does not help very much.
What can you do?
You should not use your email adress on webpages. Show it as gif and/or
use a cgi reply form for users to contact you.
Use special adresses for posting in usenet or mailinglist for online forms
and online orders...
I personally use aliases for each list I am subscribed in, for each formular
I fill out and so on. Currently I have 400 aliases in use, and currently I
have blocked only 5 of them. (well chipdir is a exception, because I am
subscribed to chipdir since the good old spam free internet days ;-).
Matthias
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