Email Proggy.. Going Wierd !

[Jimlad]

Ok... for some reason my computer is attempting to sned emails out without me saying so.

I know this because I'm getting failed deliverys returned to me...

Message from yahoo.com.

Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

<yahoomail-support@yahoo-inc.com>:

216.145.48.97 failed after I sent the message.

Remote host said: 554 5.6.1 Certain attachments are not allowed for security reasons.Your message has been rejected.

--- Original message follows.

Return-Path: <myemail@yahoo.com>

The original message is over 5k. Message truncated to 1K.

X-Rocket-Spam: 62.203.249.51

X-YahooFilteredBulk: 62.203.249.51

X-Rocket-Track: 5159937: 20 ; SFLAG=OPENRELAY ; IPCR=g-w0,n0,g100 ; IP=62.203.249.255 ; IPV=1084909589 ; SERVER=66.163.174.34

Return-Path: <myemail@yahoo.com>

Received: from 62.203.249.51 (HELO myemail.com) (62.203.249.51)

by mta101.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 21 May 2004 03:37:11 -0700

From: myemail@yahoo.com

To: Private@yahoo.com

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:34:49 UTC

Subject: wazzup!!!

Importance: Normal

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

Message-ID: <8cd6f0e2465705.6cb42.qmail@yahoo.com>

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="===9ae9ea42ce4.8fb6d7837ebc54"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--===9ae9ea42ce4.8fb6d7837ebc54

yo wazzup :P

well here is ur stuff! good luck!

cya!

--===9ae9ea42ce4.8fb6d7837ebc54

Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=stuff-5187.zip

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="stuff-5187.zip"

UEsDBAoAAAAAAAFYrjA0d6Xj/cEAAP3BAAAfAAAAcC16aXBwZWRfZmlsZV9kYXRhICAgICAgICAg

LnBpZk1akAADAAAABAAAAP//AAC4AAAAAAAAAE

*** MESSAGE TRUNCATED ***

How do I stop this pap ??? Obviously trying to send out some sort of virus or something. I do have virus proggy etc.... am I infected with a worm ??

[dazwan]

I occasionally get these as well.

I'm not sure but it's my theory that people are spoofing my email address on spam and when the spam is sent to non-existent addresses I get these emails because the server thinks the email came from me.

[Fidgits]

yeah, either its a spam using your email address, or (more likely) if you are using Outlook, then it is a virus.

[DeusMR2]

its spam mate, just ignore/delete it. Make sure youre antivirus prog is scanning attachments too cos a lot of those type of emails have the Netskey worm attached

[Jimlad]

So I'm not actually sending it out then ?

My Antivirus proggy does a good job of blocking attachments etc.

[ZeroBlade]

get a firewall setup m8. zonealarm will easily do the job. tell it to request b4 giving program x internet access.

that way u always know whats going on.

-Z

[vmail]

Im getting that crap aswell, where are people getting my email address from?

[DeusMR2]

bot spiders crawling the web searching every page for email addresses, thats why whenever i display my adress i always insert NOSPAM in the middle of it or write [at] isntead of @

[vmail]

but I use

emailaddress AT VMail DOT TK

[Al J]

So I'm not actually sending it out then ?

My Antivirus proggy does a good job of blocking attachments etc.

Some worms can take your address book and send emails to all your mates to propagate itself. You'd also get them back from them all however and probably a few phone calls asking "wtf?"

This sounds just like the ones I'm getting on my iBook (Mac so not a lot happens). Just delete the little b :censor: s.,