Re: Handling flood of returned e-mail messages due to spam with forged sender address

[Scott Weeks <sweeks () SANDIEGO EDU>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Gary Flynn wrote:

Hi Gary,

:  Anyone else been through this already?

Yes


:  Did the activity stop by itself after a period of time?

No, at least at my ISP.  Not a problem here at work, so I assume there may
be a setting the email administrator can set.


:  I'm getting ready to send abuse reports to the dozens of sending
:  organizations but I'm not optimistic.

It won't help.  There's nothing they can do.  It's a virus that searches
the addressbook of the infected machine.  It has nothing to do with the
other folks, except that they're in the addressbook of the infected
machine.


:  Why would someone pick a real address of a single person to forge
:  in these messages anyway? To our knowledge, this isn't retaliatory
:  activity but I guess you never really know.

Because that's the way the virus was written.  It's not retaliatory if
it's the virus I'm describing.

scott

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