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| Thread ID: 60862 | 2005-08-16 00:11:00 | swamped with "undeliverables" | bruce666 (8727) | Press F1 |
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| 381506 | 2005-08-16 00:11:00 | Suddenly my email is swamped with "message undeliverable" messages and similar "mailbox full," "still trying" etc automatic responses. They all refer to junk product spam sent from my email address. So has my computer been taken over or is someone else sending stuff but making it looks like it comes from me? I've done several virus and adware cleanups but it continues. | bruce666 (8727) | ||
| 381507 | 2005-08-16 00:16:00 | Someone with a virus on their computer is sending out messages with your email address in the From Field. Not much you can do about it except delete them and wait for it to stop. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 381508 | 2005-08-16 00:38:00 | Are you getting spam as well? If you are then there is a chance that some spamming ********* is using your address as a senders address. Often the "sender" addresses are just taken from the same data base as the "to" addresses. Mailwasher did (still does?) return mail to the "sender". Guess what? today, your it! If it doesn't go away, you may be forced to get a new address. I suggest a closely guarded private address or two, and disposable public addresses for any forums or websites. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 381509 | 2005-08-16 00:47:00 | Welcome to PressF1, bruce666. Your symptoms have some similarity to the Swen worm/virus, which first appeared in September 2003. (One of its attributes was multiple messages about undeliverable mail). There was a removal tool created at the time. Google will find it for you - and it's worth a check. But if it is Swen, your ISP should certainly have a filter by now to prevent the virus actually infecting your machine. So who is yoiur ISP? Does it give any indication these emails have been cleaned? Sadly, the nuisance emails do continue for some time even without infection. There are other nasties with similar symptoms, of course. This is just a thought... And Googling is always a good option. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 381510 | 2005-08-16 01:53:00 | Then there was this one a short while ago: pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 381511 | 2005-08-17 11:00:00 | Thanks everyone for your help. I'm encouraged to think the flood may eventually abate. 1/ yes, it's the same "products" that I used to get spammed on, but the number of "undeliverables" is maybe ten times what the spam volume was. 2/ I use Mailwasher and that's a big help in cleaning out the mailbox fast. 3/ I did the Swen cleaner thing but it concluded with the message that the computer wasn't infected with Swen. 4/ I am with Woosh. They don't de-spam email but they have a tool that labels it - with fair accuracy - for ease of removal. 5/ The mail is coming to my business email address which is in the form of anyname@mybusiness.co.nz so it would be an operatic performance to change it I think. waiting in hope kind regards Bruce |
bruce666 (8727) | ||
| 381512 | 2005-08-17 14:40:00 | 5/ The mail is coming to my business email address which is in the form of anyname@mybusiness.co.nz so it would be an operatic performance to change it I think. Is the flood coming to normal-name@mybusiness.co.nz or another-name@mybusiness.co.nz? If it is the later, a filter may be all you need. If it is the former, cross fingers, hope, whatever... This *may* pass! | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 381513 | 2005-08-17 21:21:00 | Bruce, probably it is the "666" in your name. If its not the devil, its the fundamentalists who are after you. :lol: |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 381514 | 2005-08-17 22:07:00 | I have had 2 undeliverable emails in the past week from someone I don't know or even tried to send an email to. I noticed they had an attachment to them. I just deleted them out of my system. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 381515 | 2005-08-18 10:56:00 | Is the flood coming to normal-name@mybusiness.co.nz or another-name@mybusiness.co.nz? If it is the later, a filter may be all you need. If it is the former, cross fingers, hope, whatever... This *may* pass! Thanks, 1/ they are being "returned" to an-infinite-bunch-of-other-dumb-names@mybusiness.co.nz and 2/ they have stopped for now, as abruptly and inexplicably as they started. Perhaps the villain has run through his/her/its full list of email addresses and has gone off to steal more. kind regards Bruce |
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