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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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 Posted - 22 August 2003 : 06:53:48
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When people forge your e-mail address into e-mails that they send out so that it looks like it came from you?
Especially when there are so many virus laden e-mails going around...
I've been getting a lot of e-mails from postmaster@xxx.xxx saying that I have a virus in my e-mails, then when I look at the headers they send me, those e-mails were sent using Outlook Express (which I don't use), and the IP address isn't mine either.
Oh well...
I've been getting way more e-mails with the W32/Sobig.F@mm virus in it than anything else. I just set up Outlook to automatically delete any e-mail with an attachment, that should take care of most of them... |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2003 : 07:45:38
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| yep, getting lots of those, plus I'm still getting around 20 sobig worms an hour through one of my mail accounts (yesterday I was getting 40+), it is getting very tiresome. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2003 : 07:59:11
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| I've only had that happen twice since I got my own domains, so maybe I should consider myself lucky. I've gotten a few virus emails the last couple days, but since Norton's kept up-to-date and removes them, I'm not too worried about it. I will make a backup of my system tonight though... just to be on the safe side. |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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Cliff
Average Member
United States
501 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2003 : 08:14:19
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I've been lucky, we are on a big network here and some coworkers have received a lot of them, so far none for me.
This is something I've wondered about for a while. What is the purpose of such viruses? Just to say you can do it? I can't see the point. I would suspect it takes a rather talented programmer to write one and there is absolutely nothing to gain, or is there?
Just curious. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2003 : 08:29:54
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I'd suspect it's all done for fame, status and the ability to say "I was responsible for all the damages caused by virus X" 
It doesn't matter why they do it, there's nothing to justify such sick behavior. |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2003 : 09:05:45
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| Yeah, I have many problems with spam mails on my domains - itīs really hard to do anything about it, I donīt use Outlook, only webmail, so spam filters canīt be used, which may be the only solution to this. |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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seven
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2003 : 17:21:16
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this virus is easy, since the subject lines are all the same, I just blocked them on the server side.
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Originally posted by HuwR
yep, getting lots of those, plus I'm still getting around 20 sobig worms an hour through one of my mail accounts (yesterday I was getting 40+), it is getting very tiresome.
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2003 : 22:52:36
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| My server anti-virus plugin has been catching them all, but gee they sure are a pain in the bum. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 23 August 2003 : 03:02:04
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Originally posted by Gremlin
My server anti-virus plugin has been catching them all, but gee they sure are a pain in the bum.
So would mine if they were coming through my mail server, but they aren't they are arriving from NTL (my cable provider) no filters !!
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this virus is easy, since the subject lines are all the same
You are obviously not getting hammeed y it then, because the subject lines are not all the same, and some are perfectly valid as a subject line in a normal mail, so you may actually be deleting valid email from your account
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seven
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 23 August 2003 : 07:42:24
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I was getting hit by the Sobig.F virus, The few hundred I was getting a day had the same subject lines:
Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details
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You are obviously not getting hammeed y it then, because the subject lines are not all the same, and some are perfectly valid as a subject line in a normal mail, so you may actually be deleting valid email from your account
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TestMagic
Senior Member
USA
1568 Posts |
Posted - 23 August 2003 : 12:37:22
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It's the body text that's all the same--I saw only two variations. I set up a filter at the domain level to filter out all mail with the first line of body text that says "please see attached file for details."
I was getting hundreds of emails on Tuesday and had to take quick action. But I'm still getting tons of confirmation emails or bounces for emails that I never sent. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 26 August 2003 : 18:27:38
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I am also getting these in my accounts and I don't even download my mail to my local computer.  |
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Faizan
Average Member
United Kingdom
592 Posts |
Posted - 26 August 2003 : 19:51:19
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quote:
Originally posted by seven
I was getting hit by the Sobig.F virus, The few hundred I was getting a day had the same subject lines:
Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details
Yup, I'm getting same emails, about 3 to 5 everyday. And they have massive attatchments that my MSN (Hotmail) gets full. :(
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
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Posted - 26 August 2003 : 20:29:35
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