EvilRufusKay Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I have been getting viruses again to my email account. Interstingly this time thay come from someone using HybridZ screennames. The most recent one I got was from slownrusty...I am confident Yasin is not sending my malicious emails ...so someone must have used his screenname. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruxGNZ Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I have recieved a few of those as well. What's weird is that my Yahoo e-mail account is sending out e-mails to random people with virus's in them. How can that happen? I have recieved e-mails from a few people asking who I was and why I sent them an e-mail. !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeromio Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 This is all just internet vandalism. There are scripts that just pull email addresses out of thin air - either scanning web pages for something@dot.com or simply creating email addresses like foo@yahoo.com - using DNS data. If you look at the full header of these emails you can see where it actually originated, and it won't match up. So for instance, if you get an email that is supposedly from somebody@jeromio.com, and you open up the header, you will see that it did not originate from my IP address - the email was spoofed and routed thru an open relay. More than likely the originating IP maps to a PC that got wormed and is now acting as a drone spitting out millions of spam emails. My server gets hit with about 500 spam emails per day. It's annoying. More so since any that are spoofing one of my domains then generate failure messages that get mapped to my server (because most email servers don't bother to check for spoofs), which is just more spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dot Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I was getting a few as well. I don't think the virus' are coming from our Z community directly. Norton looks after my mail now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilRufusKay Posted June 2, 2004 Author Share Posted June 2, 2004 Thanks guys. I figured as much, but thought I would bring it up just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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