celtish Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 (edited) How are spammers able to hack into my emails? I use MailWasher to preview and bounce my emails before using Outlook Express. MailWasher is a fine programme but inevitably there are some emails it cannot bounce because there is no return address on the cover and such emails have obviously been hacked in.And therein lies the problem. I see from the source of hacked emails that there are handling addresses there. So how would I go about bouncing the emails back to the handlers?Here is a typical hacked email I received recently X-Apparently-To: me@mine.net via 66.163.179.115; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:24:48 -0700X-YahooFilteredBulk: 222.34.173.179X-Originating-IP: [222.34.173.179]Authentication-Results: mta454.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)Received: from 222.34.173.179 (HELO 209.191.88.239) (222.34.173.179) by mta454.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:24:46 -0700Received: from 210.62.62.95 by 222.34.173.179; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:18:25 +0200Message-ID: <C[20NOTE:- me@mine.net is my email address (not my real one of course!)Comments and advice welcome! I've asked Yahoo to trace back these hacks in the past but they're just not interested enough. Edited August 19, 2007 by celtish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lost_packet Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 I suppose you know that the largest proportion of spam is now sent from open proxies (that is, other personal computers which have been infected with a botnet trojan)? The botnet herders are very accomplished at falsifying the email headers.Therefore, Mailwasher's "bounce" function is positioned somewhere between useless and harmful - you are actually doubling the spam traffic on the internet if you bounce, and whichever poor Joe's machine sent the email has no idea why a message from a stranger has returned to their account. You will NOT reduce your volume of spam by bouncing messages, except in isolated cases.Just switch off Mailwasher's bounce function and live with the spam. Adding more filters to the MW list may help to distinguish the spam mails from the ham more clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcalvert Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Don't bounce spam, report it with SpamCop (http://spamcop.net/). I haven't used Mailwasher in a long time, but it may have a feature that will let you submit spam to SpamCop fairly easily.Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcalvert Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 Instead of SpamCop (or in addition to it), you could use Complainterator. I've heard that it does a good job of getting the domain registrars to revoke the domains that are being used by spammers.Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Cloudmark Desktop. There is no substitute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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