Virus Issues

[Deke]

For the second time, I've gotten a mailer daemon that is telling me I sent an email from one of my site email accounts that contained a virus. I have sent no email from this particular account, let alone an email that contained a virus. Here are the specifics: I got two daemons. The first was from an unknown address to one of my addresses; the second was from my address (the one the first bad email was sent to) to another of my addresses. I've checked the sender account, and there's no record of an email being sent, so the loser who's sending this crap out doesn't seem to have accessed my account (I changed my p-word two days ago for safety sake). But somehow the email has my return address on it. What gives? The server firewall is catching these email, which is good. However, I'm still a bit on edge here. Has my account been corrupted? Should I do something, or is the security that's in place taking care of the problem, as it should?

[TCH-Don]

One possibility

is that some one with your e-mail address in their address book was hit by a worm/virus.

The virus will send to each address in the address book of the infected computer from the infected computer, then send more as though it is from each address in the infected computers address book to all the others in that book.

 

This happened to me last year. I even received email from my self and from my dad, who was with me at the time.

[Madmanmcp]

I have sent no email from this particular account, let alone an email that contained a virus.

A virus will send emails and you will not know it.

 

The first was from an unknown address to one of my addresses;

The virus sending itself to you because you are in the infected computers computers address book.

 

the second was from my address (the one the first bad email was sent to) to another of my addresses.

The virus sending itself to an invalid address and putting YOUR address in the "From:" field, this is called "spoofing". Since the mail could not be delivered it was returned to you because your address is in the From: field.

 

There is not much you can do about these since its someone else who is infected and with all the spoofing of the To and From fields of the email its difficult to trace back.

 

So alls you can do is recognize what the email is, delete it and move on. Be sure that you are protected by running a virus scanner and keeping it updated with the current signatures. And DO NOT open email attachments before scanning.

[Deke]

Thanks, guys. I figured it was something along those lines, but I wanted to be sure. Thumbs Up