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Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address.
From: Danyial Burnett <dburnett () NETFLIX COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:22:51 -0700
Completely unrelated to this issue: My company has just been hit by another wave of the "Check This" virus. It appears that the attachment has mutated, but no details are currently available. This virus relies on stupidity, but I thought that all of you should know that it was still around. Danyial -----Original Message----- From: Bjorn Djupvik [mailto:Bjorn.Djupvik () GLOBALONE NET] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:47 AM To: INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM Subject: Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. There is an excellent tool available (also for free) at www.spamcop.net for tracing down spammers and sending complaints to their ISPs. Have you considered running some sort of spam protection on your mail server? check out this URL for various ways to do this: http://spam.abuse.net/tools/mailblock.html. -bjorn- Dennis DeDonatis wrote:
Is there ANY way to protect against this other than not using my email address anywhere? :)
Current thread:
- Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. Dennis DeDonatis (Aug 22)
- Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. Vince Vielhaber (Aug 22)
- Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. Mardy Hutchinson (Aug 22)
- Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. Bjorn Djupvik (Aug 23)
- Message not available
- Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. Dennis DeDonatis (Aug 23)
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- Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. Andrea Adams (Aug 22)
- Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address. Danyial Burnett (Aug 23)