Re: OT phishing help
- From: "L" <lisaanne_quiltshatesspam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:18:21 -0400
"KJ" <KJoger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I thought maybe I could wait out the problem I have with someone sending
spam using my email address. I'm getting hundreds (thousands) of returned
emails in my inboxes. Some of you had this happen to them, but I'm not
sure I saw what the final results were. Will it taper off? Or do I have
to (god forbid!) get a new email address??? OH I hope not!!!!
It appears your email address was hijacked, and is being used to spam other
folks. Most likely the email address is being copied as the 'return address'
in the header, and the spam is coming from another source.
However, it is also possible that your computer is actually sending the
emails. An example is a worm that emails itself to all the contacts in your
address book(s). It also circumvents antivirus and firewalls and then does a
mass mailing (nice, huh!).
I am not sure which problem you may have. It is possible some mail servers
have ALREADY blacklisted your email -- which will increase the number of
emails bounced.
I am not entirely sure if you can recover the safe use of your email. But I
did remember reading about a trick of sorts that would notify you
immediately if a worm or virus tries to send email from your address book.
It took me a long time to find it again -- and I located it at this site
http://www.mailsbroadcast.com/email.broadcast.faq/45.email.hijacked.htm
This is one of the ways you can get your mail client (Outlook, Outlook
Express, Eudora, etc.) to notify you automatically whenever a worm or virus
tries to sent out email from your address book.
1. Simply start-up your mail client and click add new contact.
2. In the field for your new contact name, enter; AAA then when the program
prompt you for an email address, enter; VirusAlert complete the rest of the
process and save.
This is how it work; AAA will be the first entry in your address book,
therefore when any virus or worm attempt to send mail from your address
book--starting with the first contact (AAA) it will be unable to deliver to
a non-existing address (VirusAlert) and your mail client will notified you
almost immediately.
There are some tools you should use to find out if you are infected with a
virus or with spyware. I download and follow all the instructions at
MajorGeeks.com -- but it for sure *IS* for geeks (or at least those who have
a good understanding of computers). (Posts on the forum contain one of my
favorite signatures "There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who
understand binary and those who don't.")
A real thorough computer cleanup can be had by running all the steps for
Malware Removal
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407
For a quicker and easier checkup
1) Run an online virus scan with BitDefender (you MUST use IE as your
browser for this)
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
This will take quite awhile. Be warned that BitDefender will first try to
clean, and if not possible, WILL DELETE infected files. You can change the
settings so that files are not deleted if you wish.
2) Download and run SPYBOT Search and Destroy. Follow the instructions for
download and install, and get the proper link here:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=138531
I hope all this is of some help. It is a royal pain to change email
addresses, I know. Kind of like changing your phone number, you get used to
what you already have.
Lisa in NJ
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