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Emptied of expectation. Relax. ([personal profile] tinyjo) wrote2003-09-18 02:23 pm
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Intrusion alert!

OK, it's much worse than I thought. Someone else is sending out a ton of spam email purporting to come from my domain. It seems to be the style of spam that I've been getting recently (prescription meds stuff) so I assume that's where they found the domain name. Now the question is, how do I get them to fuck the hell off and stop doing it? I figured out that it's not being sent from my computer because after disinfecting it, I shut it down for a bit as a test and logged onto my email using webmail and my office computer. And I've just received another bounce message stating the original mail was received at 9:06 EST (i.e. 14:06 GMT). While my laptop was turned off, and had been for a good hour. On the plus side this means that I can turn the laptop back on, reassured that it's completely clean of mail sending crap but on the minus side, what the hell do I do about this?
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[identity profile] angelsk.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
someone keeps using my email to send spam too

[identity profile] sparkymark.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
In a Guardian online article

Jack Schofield replies: Klez is dangerous because it can infect a PC without you opening an attachment: viewing mail in a preview pane is enough. However, when Klez mails itself to other people, it chooses email addresses at random. It is possible for someone to receive an infected email that looks as though it came from you but came from someone else. The fact that an infected email has your address on it does not prove your PC is infected.


Which Outlook [Express[ user would have both tinyjo and angelsk in their address book?

(i was actually searching for a more recent Jack Schofieled article about how Klez non-deliveries are the new Spam: how companies should black-hole them rather than advertising their lovely filters by bouncing them).

Joe Job

(Anonymous) 2003-09-18 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't a virus - it's a Joe Job (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Joe%20Job).

Just one of the hazards of having a domain, though you do seem to be unlucky. I normally only get one or two of these a day for my domains.

- Adrian
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