Need Some Advice Asap.

[Alan]

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Subject:   [MailServer Notification]To Sender virus found and action taken.

From:   Administrator@als-xtn.com

Date:   Sun, May 16, 2004 10:32 pm

To:   alan@tinywizard.com

Priority:   Normal

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ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s).

 

Sender = alan@tinywizard.com

Recipient(s) = WIWEBMASTER

Subject = Document

Scanning time = 05/16/2004 21:32:00

Engine/Pattern = 6.640-1001/891

 

Action on virus found:

The attachment Textfile.zip contains WORM_NETSKY.Z virus. ScanMail has Deleted it.

 

Warning to sender. ScanMail has detected a virus in an email you sent.

 

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I have not sent a eMail to WIWEBMASTER, nor any other @als-xtn.com addresses.

Actually I have not sent any eMails in about two weeks to ANYONE. As I was in Panama City Beach Florida. And another hint to this, there is NO SUCH ADDRESS (alan@tinywizard.com) my address is alan@tinywizard.net. And my .com contact is wTeam@tinywizard.com.

 

What should I do from here? Just did not want TCH to get a report on me and close my accounts lol.

 

Infact, I told Don a few months back my @tinywizard.com email account was going to be closed due to spammers.

 

 

-Alan

 

P.S: I am back on the forums, 6 months left of homeschool(Last 2 credits 12th Grade) untill I get my Diploma and send my college applications out "University of Southern Mississippi" ***Slips into a daydream*** LOL Or a community college I am just worried about becoming a paramedic no need for a fancy college. But would be nice LOL.

[TCH-Rob]

It could be a spoof. It would be nice to see headers to be sure. Was that the entire message you got?

[Alan]

Yes.

 

S/He got a nice message back I asked him/her to send me proof, and told him/her my standpoint at this time, aswell as explained to him/her that it could not have been me and that I had proof it wasnt.

 

Aswell as warned him/her about sending me false complaints. (As in I would be blocking the domain from being able to send me mail from ANY of the users.)

 

-Alan

[MikeJ]

I would say almost definitely a spoofed virus email that got sent, and a not-so-well-configured virus program bounced it back to you thinking it came from you. I get bounces like that almost daily right now.

 

Virus writers.

[Alan]

It might be s/he is mad because they got one of my auto messages.

 

I have my Norton Internet Security set to send all mail that is flagged such as having a virus/spam/worm to the correct folder, and once it hits that folder an automessage will be sent to the sender with a copy of the info that is being logged.

 

And when I go to the folder, I trace the eMail address using NeoTrace to get his/her IP Address, then trace it, and send a complaint to their ISP. And print a copy of their address/phone #/Ip Address/ISP/ISP Abuse line/ISP Abuse Email Address And all other info the neotrace gives me.

 

-Alan

[MikeJ]

It might be s/he is mad because they got one of my auto messages.

While possible, more often it's just random. Basically using addresses it knows are valid to improve it's chances of being delivered.

[Alan]

True,

 

All is well though, I am fixing to put the default address on tinywizard.com to fail, I am tired of the spam coming to my personal email address from info@tinywizard.com, which also does not exist lol.

 

-Alan

[TCH-Rick]

If you set the default to :fail: your main account will fill up with bounce messages from all the spam that uses a fake address. I would suggest setting it to :blackhole: so that it is deleted. And don't forget the colon at the beginning and end.

[Alan]

Kewl,

 

Thanks Rick.

 

(Hehe I never check my main account, unless my storage hops up.) LOL Or I am bored. Either one.