gamehead200 Posted June 18, 2004 Posted June 18, 2004 OK, so for the last few days, I've been getting bounced messages saying that MY e-mail address sent a bunch of e-mails with some German rubbish and it bounced back... Even though my computer was OFF, I checked the time the e-mails were sent and some of them said 3 or 4 AM (when I'm asleep and when my power went off)... So does anyone have any idea where people are getting my e-mail to do this? I remember something about the German spam, but not anything about how they got spread out...
Doggie Posted June 18, 2004 Posted June 18, 2004 hmm.. what exactly do these messages come as? Email saying how you tried to send an email to a certain address(that are most likely fake) and it had a virus or was unable to send?
Marsden Posted June 18, 2004 Posted June 18, 2004 Could come from any of your friends address books...
XtremeMaC Posted June 18, 2004 Posted June 18, 2004 well its likely that a friend of yours (or someone who has u on your email) got a virus.or its more likely that the mail server u use is infected...and I don't believe its really kind to say german rubbish.. but u're the supa mod
gamehead200 Posted June 18, 2004 Author Posted June 18, 2004 well its likely that a friend of yours (or someone who has u on your email) got a virus.or its more likely that the mail server u use is infected...and I don't believe its really kind to say german rubbish.. but u're the supa mod Its rubbish because its going to my my spam folder! Yeah, anywayz, I get e-mails saying (in English) that a message that someone sent with my e-mail address could not be delivered to the recipients listed in the e-mail... Now as I already mentioned, its not my computer, because some of the e-mails say they were sent at around 3 AM (3:00 ), and my computer gets shut down at around 11 PM (23:00 for you 24 hour folks) or 12 AM (0:00)...
Doggie Posted June 18, 2004 Posted June 18, 2004 dude, thats a variant of the netsky virus.. so delete them if you get them..
gamehead200 Posted June 18, 2004 Author Posted June 18, 2004 dude, thats a variant of the netsky virus.. so delete them if you get them..There's no attachments except for the e-mail when I receive the "bounced" message... And if there were a virus, Norton Anti-Virus would have picked it up... Its all up-to-date...
Doggie Posted June 18, 2004 Posted June 18, 2004 well duh me.. forgot about that.. only 'trying' to help
likuidkewl Posted June 18, 2004 Posted June 18, 2004 More than likely some ISP along the way noted the virus and removed it.
ahab Posted June 22, 2004 Posted June 22, 2004 http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/08/...ergerman_1.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...logy/techpolicyhttp://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/...39157444,00.htmgoogle: german spam sober worm
gamehead200 Posted June 22, 2004 Author Posted June 22, 2004 Thanks for the info! I knew I had read that before!
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