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Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I
run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware. How can I stop this? Thanks. |
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"Sanford Aranoff" wrote in message
... Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware. How can I stop this? Thanks. if it's "without your knowledge" how do you know about it? |
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Gordon wrote:
"Sanford Aranoff" wrote in message ... Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware. How can I stop this? Thanks. if it's "without your knowledge" how do you know about it? Because I get email saying that it could not be delivered. Is this what one calls a worm? |
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Sanford Aranoff wrote: Gordon wrote: "Sanford Aranoff" wrote in message ... Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware. How can I stop this? Thanks. if it's "without your knowledge" how do you know about it? Because I get email saying that it could not be delivered. Is this what one calls a worm? The message does not necessarily mean that the e-mail is actually being sent from your computer...just your e-mail address. And, yes, there are Trojans (or worms) that attack other user's e-mail address books in order to use the e-mail addresses they contain. |
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Sanford Aranoff wrote:
Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware. How can I stop this? Thanks. You apparently posted your real email address. That's how spammers and virus writers get your email address. You should always munge your address, i.e., change it to something incorrect. My address above will cause an immediate error if someone tries to email me (because of the word "invalid"). A spammer won't take the time to correct the address because of the thousands of rejections, but an individual will see that it needs a slight correction. -- Joe =o) |
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Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:49:16 -0500 from Sanford Aranoff
: Gordon wrote: "Sanford Aranoff" wrote in message ... Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware. How can I stop this? Thanks. if it's "without your knowledge" how do you know about it? Because I get email saying that it could not be delivered. Is this what one calls a worm? You're making an assumption, which is that the bounce messages are going where they should. More likely, I think is that some spammer is forging your address in the return address field of its spams. Add to that the fact that some idiot sysadmins still send bounce messages to the From or Reply-to address, even when the Received headers don't match, and you get bounce messages for mail you never sent. I don't know of anything you can do about of it, short of laboriously researching the sysadmin of each system that sends you a bounce message and telling them to configure their system properly. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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