Re: unauthorized emails being sent by N
N
Thu Jan 29 22:20:09 CST 2004
In article <5b5801c3e5f5$cda05190$a301280a@phx.gbl>,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> For 2-3 weeks I have been getting more and more messages
> from "Mail Delivery System," "Mail Delivery Subsystem,"
> and several others all saying various emails allegedly
> sent from my account were undeliverable. I do not know
> any of the addresses and have not sent any such emails.
> What can I do?
Filter, filter, filter. On June 1, 2003 I found Mercury Mail downloading
scores of these MDS notices, or bounces. The culprit was a spammer who
forged my yahoo.com email address in his spam run. Altogether I got nearly
300 bounces, 1 taunt, 1 C/R system challenge, and 4 MailWasher bounces.
After checking your own system with a current anti virus scanner, if you are
clean, you are just seeing the consequence of a forgery. Viruses can also
forge addresses.
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Norman
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