Re: [Nolug] the spammers seem to have gotten me

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 16:43, dave wrote:
> My bad, I meant to say the Klez. Well you don't have be using Microsoft
> products to be affected. The worm grabs your email address for it's own
> use, usually through an infeted client that has reference to your email
> address along with many others. So usually, you'll get an email from a mail
> server that catches it stating that it found a virus in one of your emails,
> when in fact it was the Klez worm running on another machine spoofing your
> address along with many others on any open relay it can get ahold of.
> Pretty nasty.

But isn't that only relevant to lusers using MS Lookout?

As John S. alluded to, it's a 3rd party who is spoofing you...

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett D. Estrade" <estrabd@yahoo.com>
> To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] the spammers seem to have gotten me
>
>
> > I don't use any M$ programs to send email, and as far as I know all the
> mail servers I use are
> > *nix. What is the MO of the worm?
> >
> > Brett
> >
> > --- dave <davisparbuckle@cox.net> wrote:
> > > Are you sure it's a spammer or is it just that darn nimda worm?
> > >
> > > dave
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brett D. Estrade" <estrabd@yahoo.com>
> > > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:04 PM
> > > Subject: [Nolug] the spammers seem to have gotten me
> > >
> > >
> > > > It seems that some @$$h0!e spammer is using my email address as the
> > > sender, and I am getting an
> > > > onslaught of reject emails. Is there anything I can do to stop this?
> I
> > > guess not....this sucks!
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else had this problem?

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