> Folks,
> there is a new threat of which I think you should be aware. Your
> anti-spam filters won't help, and it seems that your ISP won't help either.
>
> I've just been caught by this, and my ISP (Ihug) has not been able to
> solve the problem. It seems that a nasty person somewhere has been sending
> millions of spam emails with the reply address set to my email.
>
> The end result: I get hundreds of bounce messages a day. At its peak, I
> was receiving up to 800 bounce messages a minute. Even Mail-Washer couldn't
> keep up. I have created a filter which looks for Undeliverable and similar
> things in the subject line and deletes them before they ever get to be
> downloaded, but still my in-box is overflowing.
>
> It would be nice if one could ask their ISP to never send bounce-mails,
> but Ihug seem unable to do this.
>
> I'm not receiving spam (my Ihug spam filter is in assassin mode), and I'm
> not receiving viruses (coz that filter is similarly agressive), but
> bounce-mails are still arriving at an alarming rate.
>
> Be warned:- a spoof on the reply address can cause you BIG problems.
>
> I feel like I want to kill someone.
Can I help you? I had that problem about two months ago. Because the messages
were rather small, even the ones which attached the original SPAMs. The SPAMs
changed every two to three days but the e-mail addy they were using was the same
so I got a whole new lot.
The only way I could stop it was to use www.spamcop.com and get the original from the
bounced attachment and submit that to SpamCop. SpamCop say that they do not
handle viruses or bounced messages but doing it this way you are submitting the
original SPAM. BTW - I got my own copy of that SPAM too. In the notes area
of SpamCop I explained that the e-mail submitted was the original I got back as the
attachment to a bounced message. I submitted every one that reported a different
originating server for one day and then I got almost no more bounces. It did take
a week for all the bounces to stop as some were the "we tried for 5 days but it
failed" type.
It still amuses me when people harp on about only MS OSs being hit by viruses.
Those people forget that this sort of thing can be even harder on a network than
a virus and it affects all OSs as they are just bounced messages.
Good luck.
Chrissy.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with body of "unsubscribe offtopic"
Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
