I think my computer is spamming people
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When I came to my computer this morning, my email inbox had 30+ emails with subjects along the lines of 'mail delivery failure'. When I had a look at them they appear to have been sent from random email names @ a domain name I do own. I use McAffee Security Suite and did a full system scan which didn't turn up anything interesting, however whilst it was doing the scan I locked down the firewall and whilst it was down I didn't receive any more bounce back emails. Now I've unlocked the firewall I'm receiving bounce backs. From looking through programs that are actively using the internet I can't see anything suspicious. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks!
Plotloss said:
Someone has been spamming with your mail address as the sender.
Little you can do about it unfortunately as the mail bounce go to the sender address, so though you had nothing to do with the spamming, you get the fallout.
Shysters.
Little you can do about it unfortunately as the mail bounce go to the sender address, so though you had nothing to do with the spamming, you get the fallout.
Shysters.
That's kind of OK then - at least I'm not actively contributing to it! Thanks
Most of the emails get eaten by my spam filter but my Blackberry is getting constant emails as it doesn't filter them.
Edited by broadhat on Wednesday 18th April 15:50
I have that problem. Unfortunately, they put random letters in front of the @ and therefore you get undeliverables coming back to your root mail address, filling up your inbox.
Because I have several addresses at one domain, I only check abc@domain for example. So every now and again, I go to the web version of the mail service and clear off all the crap that just sits there.
it's a real pain. Although I heard there was a way the industry could get around it, by simply having a check system. Ie. when an email is sent, a code stored in a "sent note" is stored on the mail server. When it's delivered the receiving server tries to contact the sending server. If the codes match - it accepts the email. If not, it rejects it.
Not sure if it would cause too much extra traffic - lots of people use receipts anyway.
Because I have several addresses at one domain, I only check abc@domain for example. So every now and again, I go to the web version of the mail service and clear off all the crap that just sits there.
it's a real pain. Although I heard there was a way the industry could get around it, by simply having a check system. Ie. when an email is sent, a code stored in a "sent note" is stored on the mail server. When it's delivered the receiving server tries to contact the sending server. If the codes match - it accepts the email. If not, it rejects it.
Not sure if it would cause too much extra traffic - lots of people use receipts anyway.
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