On Saturday 21 Aug 2004 2:47 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: > List, > > Recently, (I don't remeber the date I first saw them) I started > receiving emails from mailer daemons and anti-spam and firewall > software. I tink someone has hijacked my email addres. I don't know > where to turn. I "looked" through verizon's site but they want me to > download a winduz product the to get help from their helpdesk. No can or > will do! And of course I can't find an email address on the site (they > do a good job of hiding them). So I am turning here. What should I do > next? I have kept most of the replies if anyone wants to look at them.
It's possible that a spammer has hijacked your email address.... However.... Do you use Windows with the same mail address as well as Linux? If you yes, it's possible (though unlikely if you are reasonably clued up), that you have been hit by a worm such as Netsky, and it's bombarding everybody in your address book with itself, and the error messages are mail servers batting it back.... Or the most likely answer, is that somebody out there is infected with Netsky, who runs windows. Netsky is clever, and mails itself out as a delivery failure message, with either your supposed original email (which you will have never sent!) as an attachment. Curiosity gets the better of you, you click to see the mail you allegedly sent, and bingo, youre infected. Another way it operates, it will send out a message, telling you of an incoming mail failure, and click this link to view the message via webmail. Click it, and youre in trouble!. If you dont have Windows, and it is Netsky or similar, relax. You wont be able to stop the crap from coming in, but you can try cutting it down with a spam filter or such like. I'm getting up to 8 netsky hits a day still. AND IT'S SOMEBODY WHO IS/HAS BEEN ON THIS LIST, AS THIS LIST IS THE ONLY PLACE THIS EMAIL ADDRESS HAS BEEN!! UPDATE YOUR ANTIVIRUS AND BLOODY RUN A SCAN!!! :-) Rant over, JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 9.2... Kernel 2.6 "Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today?" Registered Linux User #340061 73 de M3GXQ Yaesu FT-902DM HF, 40/20/15/10m Dipole Yaesu FT-7800E VHF/UHF, Dual band Co Linear 19:23:34 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.71, 0.86, 0.46
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