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

I had it happen a few times too. It's nothing to do with your machine;
somebody has just figured how to send email and fake it to look like
you were the sender.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Sunday, February 09, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: 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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