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Re: Handling flood of returned e-mail messages due to spam with forged sender address
From: Scott Weeks <sweeks () SANDIEGO EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:03:11 -0700
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 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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- Handling flood of returned e-mail messages due to spam with forged sender address Gary Flynn (Aug 16)
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- Re: Handling flood of returned e-mail messages due to spam with forged sender address Scott Weeks (Aug 16)
- Re: Handling flood of returned e-mail messages due to spam with forged sender address Dick Jacobson (Aug 17)
- Re: Handling flood of returned e-mail messages due to spam with forged sender address Gary Flynn (Aug 17)