vcant Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 lately i get returning messages to my corporate email saying that the message could not be delivered to the recipients for different reasons, the only problem is that i didnt send the messages. so i can only assume that someone sending spam stating my email address. i wouldnt care if that was my personal email, but as you can guess this cannot be good for a company, giving the impression that we send spam.any ideas what can be done about it?thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkkavenger Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Try out if you have any viruses around on ANY of the corporation computers. This happened to us once, the virus was spoofing mails using my own address (as system administrator) and i had no virus on my server, it was on an old Win95 machine without antivirus.The virus was using data from the colleague's address book and sending itself to several people.Try accessing to mail headers and see what gets out of there. There should be the real path from where the mails were sent and all.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcant Posted August 11, 2003 Author Share Posted August 11, 2003 thanx for the infono, no virus here, i did checked the header, and found the ip of the sender, traced it to Shanghai....i also looked at the mail server, the emails are not being sent through there, it has SMTP password authentication as well...but this doesnt help me muchi assume that its just some spammer, using my address in his emails... just dont know what to do about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkkavenger Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 I would still opt for the virus problem. We thought no virus was around, until we discovered one on one of the oldest boxes of the company. My best wishes to fix this problem. Could be a spam as well, but previous 'repeated' experience tells me rather of a virus/massmailer.Regards,Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Hey if you can't seem to get what you want here, try Computer Cops. Might get a little more info on what's going on and how to stop it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 There is a script , mostly called bommer.php that spammers use, which allows them to use any return e-mail address this way showing it was sent form anywhere.But if the person looks at the e-mail, right clicks, chooses properties they will see it was not from you. If you get anyone sending you e-mails asking you to stop just reply to them and tell them to check properties.This is a big problem with the hosting industry as alot of people are accused of spamming when they are not. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcant Posted August 11, 2003 Author Share Posted August 11, 2003 thanx guys, will check all that stuff out.checked the computers again, no viruse here. we never run outdated software, or outdated antivirus on the mashines (strictly prohibited by myself )didnt receive any complaints yet, will hope its not too massive....thanx for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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