advice i need advice

[stuveltje]

from this morning i get all kinds of emails with virusses to my email from analbitch-pornlist.com and netmaniak.com, so i was banning th edomains on both my linksites and blocking them in my email box until i got an email which was familair to me.lol. i have check the source ofd the email and it said this


Return-Path: <greenguyandjim@greenguysboard.com>
Received: from analbitch-pornlist.com (CPE0010dc24984c-CM00080d866a44.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.98.252])
by hail.isprime.com (8.12.11/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i7IAt8Wv024474
for <webmistress@analbitch-pornlist.com>; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:55:08 -0400 (EDT)
(envelope-from greenguyandjim@greenguysboard.com)
Message-Id: <200408181055.i7IAt8Wv024474@hail.isprime.com>
From: greenguyandjim@greenguysboard.com
To: webmistress@analbitch-pornlist.com
Subject: Hi
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:57:40 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_0000731A.0000361D"
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-Priority: High
X-UIDL: Pfa"!)G)!!2&)!!;~;"!

Now i defitnitly know something is wrong somewher, because i know GG and Jim would never send me an email with Hi, and a virus, so i have to unbanned the emails again and unblock them from my email, what can i do more, because i see more familiar emails comming in with virusses.

[Surfn]

You may want to use a virus checker for your email program.

[stuveltje]

Hi, surfn i have that, but my virus scanner drives me nuts with poopin in, i just got the advice to email roger.com with the info so they could check

[Jim]

Like I said before, I get spammed more by my own email address than any else :) Spamcop has a cool little feature to tell you where the mail really came from.

[stuveltje]

Nice one jim, i will definitly look into that, i am just a bit lost because i just had a 6 weeks holiday .....forched by my hubby and kids!!!

[tiny]

Did you do a source via the email or did you right click and choose properties .If it was just a source on the email itself your not going to see the true info. Just a thought.

[stuveltje]

Did you do a source via the email or did you right click and choose properties .If it was just a source on the email itself your not going to see the true info. Just a thought. i know, i just emailed the internet provider about it, i know its not greenguy andjim sending me this stuff, but i stil get alot of emails with virusses so the person who is infected his whole email list is sending stuff to all kind of people, i hope his internet provider will fix this

[Bill]

Yes, see if there is more to the header, that looks like a partial header. Based on that header info alone it looks like it might be a fully spoofed email, which is somewhat rarer.

Usually by looking at the full header you can get some clues as to where the email actually came from.

A fully spoofed header implies a more dangerous payload to the virus, probably including a full backdoor and code to make the infected machine a zombie.

[Cleo]

I get a bunch of mails like that each day and just add them to my junk filter.

I love it when they look like they came from me.

[DangerDave]

There is little or no use tracking where these virus email come from.. 99% of the info is spoofed..

Just delete them and move on...

If you are getting heaps, it just means some newb with a fast connection, who has your email in his cache/history/address book/etc, has executed the virus, and doesn't know they are sending them.

Get a decent AV program and get back to work;)

http://www.grisoft.com/

DD

[plateman]

My Isp earthlink has a good built in virus filter that does the job for me.. Once in a while one will come through with a attachment that looks like a virus and I just get out the |lightsabe

when klez came out and I was a online newbie my mail box was set to preview the email - lets just say I reformated a couple of times learning how to use norton and config my mailbox..

[tiny]

Get a decent AV program and get back to work

http://www.grisoft.com/

DD

I agree 100% it will find virii that nortons misses and will save ya from nasty java trojans bigtime.
I have mine set to update everydate and scan once a night.
I bought the retail because I liked the free ver.Mainly a way of supporting the author because the free ver is great

[stuveltje]

Get a decent AV program and get back to work

DD


Oke , i am working, i am working|violin|
Thanks for the info all!!

[spazlabz]

Originally posted by tiny
Get a decent AV program and get back to work

http://www.grisoft.com/

DD

I agree 100% it will find virii that nortons misses and will save ya from nasty java trojans bigtime.
I have mine set to update everydate and scan once a night.
I bought the retail because I liked the free ver.Mainly a way of supporting the author because the free ver is great

Yes, and Thanks to tiny for clueing me into this program as well. I know have this freeware AV program on 7 computers, 6 with Nortons and one with that other AV program, and the first time i ran it it found virii on each machine that the other programs missed. Guess we are going to need to start stacking AV programs like we do spyware/adware/malware programs now heh heh


spaz

[Ramster]

Getting spammed with emails full of viruses are a part of running an online biz unfortuneately. I get them from me, people I know and companies. It's all spoofed and obviously not from myself and these other people.

Delete them and move on. I check my emails daily and use Thunderbird rather than Outlook (you couldn't pay me enough) and just delete the garbage.

[stuveltje]

Getting spammed with emails full of viruses are a part of running an online biz unfortuneately. I get them from me, people I know and companies. It's all spoofed and obviously not from myself and these other people.

yep i get those also in other emails, the difference was now that, my linksite email was hit, even i have the Ll more then a year i never had virusemails to that emailadress, and now it is a huge amound just like that, i have a good virus scanner he will catch them all, just was thinking why now so suddenly to that adress.

I think DD is right the person who's puter is infected is someone who submit to linksites because all the emails i get have all the names of most linksites on it

[chilihost]

bloody viruses and spam email are now taking up 70-80% of all email traffic on the internet, can you believe it!!! Unfortunately, the reality is that the only thing to do is delete it.

I have upgraded to Outlook 2003 (aka Outlook XP) and find their internal spam filter works about 98% of the time, I highly recommend it now. Even though it is an ms product, it is developed by the ms office team who imho still create some quality programs.


cheers,
Luke