<VV> Re: {Spam?} [VV-talk] Email problem (no Vair)

[alan WESSON]

Thanks Gary - this is v. useful! Forgot to mention that I can't access
PayPal at the moment either - same problem as you, I hope. Alternatively,
someone could have cleaned out all my money...

Cheers and thanks

Alan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary" <mopar@jbcs2.net>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>; <vv-talk@corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: {Spam?} [VV-talk] Email problem (no Vair)


> Someone you know, or do not know has your e-mail in their mail list. This
> can easily happen even if that person did it unintentionally. For
instance,
> they hit "reply all" when replying to a vv-talk message. Outlook express
> adds e-mail addresses to the address book!!!!!! So someone is
inadvertantly
> adding your name to their address book, and they are infected and do not
> know about it. They may not have a virus, but ionstead be infected with a
> spy-ware program which is using their computer to forward spam. A virus
just
> the same.
> If you change your e-mail address. it most likely will happen again.
> I am having another problem I cannot figure out.
> My computer is disconnecting when I try searching websites like e-bay. I
get
> the pop up telling me a program is trying to access the internet, a
program
> one would trust, and no matter what I do it disconnects me. This is the
> Norton security pop up.
>
> Gary Swiatowy
> May have to erase the hard drive and start over again.........
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alan WESSON" <sidevalve@sidevalve.fsnet.co.uk>
> To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>; <vv-talk@corvair.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:02 AM
> Subject: {Spam?} [VV-talk] Email problem (no Vair)
>
>
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > Sorry to waste bandwidth on a non-Vair question, but I am still having
the
> > problem I have been having for some time - i.e. returned spam emails
that
> > appear to come from me but actually didn't. They are proving to be a
HUGE
> > problem, as my emails are being filtered out by other people's, because
I
> am
> > appearing to be a spammer.
> >
> > I know I asked before, and someone (possibly Tony - can't remember!)
said
> it
> > was possible to send emails with false headers, so that looks as if it
is
> > what is happening - but is there anything I can do about it? I am
getting
> > hundreds of these a day, and they are driving me nuts! I can't even
> identify
> > where they are originating, or if they are on purpose (i.e. someone who
> has
> > hijacked my email to cover their own spamming activities), or whether
they
> > are caused by a virus that someone else has (I have updated my Norton
> > firewall and done a virus check this morning, and it is all clear).
> >
> > I am shortly going to change my email address, and this might provide an
> > opportunity for a fresh start - but I am worried that the problem will
> just
> > infect the new email address after a while!!
> >
> > Is anyone else having the same problem, is it widespread, is it
soluble -
> > and, as I said, is there anything I can do about it? I suspect that it
is
> > arising from the fact that I am subscribed to three email lists/forums
> > including this one, and that my email address has either been harvested
by
> a
> > spammer or is being used as a fake 'from' address by someone's computer
> > which is infected with a virus...
> >
> > The returned email which apparently came from me but didn't is copied
> below.
> > It was HTML, which won't come out on VV, but if anyone can offer me
> offlist
> > help I will forward it separately.
> >
> > Cheers and thanks in advance
> >
> > Alan, at his wits' end
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Sendmail
> > To: sidevalve@sidevalve.fsnet.co.uk
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:23 AM
> > Subject: Yahoo! has blocked your message
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > [Here there was a price list for generic Viagra - Alan]
> >
> > Go there [This was a clickable button - Alan]
> >
> > houseboat a luxuriantblur be antisemitic and smogelliot cameron the door
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Nash
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