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I have been hijacked
About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator
or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA |
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Ben Stevenson wrote:
About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA It is not so "obvious." More likely you are just the victim of spam. |
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Hi Ben,
I would suggest starting he Virus and Spyware removal and prevention http://bertk.mvps.org/html/spyware.html -- Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://dts-l.org/ Ben Stevenson wrote: About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA |
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Ben Stevenson wrote:
About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA What's more likely is that someone who has your address is infected with a virus. The virus just selects a name from the address book to use in the from field. Consequently when the e-mail gets bounced it comes back to you. You can go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ for a free online scan just to make sure. If it comes back clean there really not much else you can do. gls858 |
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"Ben Stevenson" wrote in message ... About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA DON'T PANIC It's probably nothing to do with you or your computer. Most likely a spammer is pretending to be you and several thousand other people.... It works like this.... Spammers can't use the same email address to send a million spam emails because that would be too easy for ISP's to detect and block automatically. So what they do is they fake the sender details so that their messages appear to come from thousands of different email addresses (including yours). Every now and again a spammer will send out a message (pretending to be from you) and that message will go to a non existant email address and it will bounce...not back to the spammer but back to you. Thats what you are seeing. |
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It is more likely that someone who has your email address in their address
book has a worm or a virus. If you follow the advice of the others who responded, and your system is clean, then it means that someone you know or exchange email with has an infected machine. Bobby "Ben Stevenson" wrote in message ... About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA |
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Ben Stevenson wrote:
About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA In all likelihood, there's nothing wrong with your computer. What does your antivirus application report? To whom have you granted access through your firewall? The way many mass emailing worms work is that they send out emails from the infected machine to every address it finds, and it randomly selects one of those found addresses to place in the "from" fields. What this means is that someone else who has your email address in his/her contact list is actually the infected party. You might consider advising everyone with who you've recently corresponded that they should all perform virus scans. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH |
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I agree with Gordo, because I get those every now and then. I am sure the
spammer or whoever expects you to open the message to see which one of your Very Important E-mails did not get to its intended recipient. Did you ever check what the message was that had been refused? Clark "Bruce Chambers" wrote in message ... Ben Stevenson wrote: About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA In all likelihood, there's nothing wrong with your computer. What does your antivirus application report? To whom have you granted access through your firewall? The way many mass emailing worms work is that they send out emails from the infected machine to every address it finds, and it randomly selects one of those found addresses to place in the "from" fields. What this means is that someone else who has your email address in his/her contact list is actually the infected party. You might consider advising everyone with who you've recently corresponded that they should all perform virus scans. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH |
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Hi folks
Many thanks to Gordo, Bert Kinney, gls858, CWatters, NoNoBadDog!, Bruce Chambers, and Clark. From your valuable suggestions, now I know alot better. Thanks again. "Bert Kinney" wrote in message ... Hi Ben, I would suggest starting he Virus and Spyware removal and prevention http://bertk.mvps.org/html/spyware.html -- Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://dts-l.org/ Ben Stevenson wrote: About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA |
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You're welcome Ben.
-- Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://dts-l.org/ Ben Stevenson wrote: Hi folks Many thanks to Gordo, Bert Kinney, gls858, CWatters, NoNoBadDog!, Bruce Chambers, and Clark. From your valuable suggestions, now I know alot better. Thanks again. "Bert Kinney" wrote in message ... Hi Ben, I would suggest starting he Virus and Spyware removal and prevention http://bertk.mvps.org/html/spyware.html -- Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://dts-l.org/ Ben Stevenson wrote: About once a week I receive a msg in my Inbox from some System Administrator or the like from somewhere telling me that my msg was undeliverable for some reasons, mostly as the receipient does not exist. I know I never sent those msgs as I don't even know the reciepients or have anything to do with them. Obviously someone is using my computer as a zombie or the like, and I have been hijacked. Anything I can do to remove the hijack/hijacker? TIA |
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