As I am getting about 40 'undeliverable' reports a day but from addies I never sent anything to, it looks like I have a virus. If you have received an odd mail from me, please ignore it. If anyone can recommend me a virus mender that's up to date, easy to use and free, please let me know. -- Marina Mayes - Reading, UK. To email me remove XX from my address XV535, GPZ500S (for sale), SR250 (shared). BOTAFOT12, BOD#2, BOTAFOS#2. KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3 Original Sinergy - wicked T-shirts for a wicked world: www.originalsinergy.com I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation. www.pericles.demon.co.uk "You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03
Nope , someone else has a virus which picks a name from the address book on that computer and spoofs the emails so they appear to have come from that address. As a result the bounce reports will come back to you , but it could be anyone who has your email address stored on their PC that is infected. The Grisoft one seems to do the trick. -- Alex SRX 400 "I laugh in the face of danger" "Then I hide until it goes away" www.drzoidberg.co.uk
I'm suffering a dearth of these at the moment as well. Just configure your mailer to mark them as junk and forget about it (the new Netscape is particularly good). IMHO, no one should be on the net these days without a properly configured firewall in place and a decent anti virus package installed and regularly updated. There are plenty of freebies out there so there isn't an excuse. Just my tuppence worth. HTH
One of the signatures of SoBig is that it spoofs the sender. You may be seeing bounce-backs because some numtpy hasn't configured their mailsweeper correctly to ignore spoofed Froms. The bounce backs from SoBig have caused more problems than the virus itself. H+Bedv is free as is Grisoft for Windows. Never hurts to run adaware as well.
aha, that sounds very likely. I won't worry so much about it then. OK, ta. -- Marina Mayes - Reading, UK. To email me remove XX from my address XV535, GPZ500S (for sale), SR250 (shared). BOTAFOT12, BOD#2, BOTAFOS#2. KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3 Original Sinergy - wicked T-shirts for a wicked world: www.originalsinergy.com I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation. www.pericles.demon.co.uk "You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03
I'm using Agent and have no idea how to do this - can anyone tell me? Weelll, I don't really need a firewall (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) as I'm on a single personal PC with a dial up connection (though this new PC has wakeonLAN, so I try to remember to switch it off a the plug) and I have got a virus checker, but it's by now well out of date. I use the following strategy: I'm using a decent mailer (Agent) that doesn't open attachments automatically, and I never open attachments unless I'm expecting them. I reckon if I get infected, (seems unlikely, and I therefore had no idea how I could have got infected if this was a virus, thought maybe a new type) then's the time to get a time-limited freebie and clean up. -- Marina Mayes - Reading, UK. To email me remove XX from my address XV535, GPZ500S (for sale), SR250 (shared). BOTAFOT12, BOD#2, BOTAFOS#2. KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3 Original Sinergy - wicked T-shirts for a wicked world: www.originalsinergy.com I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation. www.pericles.demon.co.uk "You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03
Thanks for explanation, and thanks to everyone who has replied, much relief. OK, ta. -- Marina Mayes - Reading, UK. To email me remove XX from my address XV535, GPZ500S (for sale), SR250 (shared). BOTAFOT12, BOD#2, BOTAFOS#2. KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3 Original Sinergy - wicked T-shirts for a wicked world: www.originalsinergy.com I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation. www.pericles.demon.co.uk "You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03
