There is a clue at the bottom of your email: > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.25/102 - Release Date: 09/14/2005
Is that generated by your computer or your ISP? There are exploits that use your email address book to propagate emails that appear to come from you. But this sounds like the addressees are not real or at least are not in your address book. The bad guys *are* finding a way to use your email address as the sender. They could even be using your computer to send them, but I'm guessing there are other ways. I've seen this before with other folks, but being a Mac user I haven't had to worry about it so I'm a little vague on what can be done. Switch to a Mac? Google the problem? I'll see what I can find out. Good luck Dave On 10/20/05, James Lerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi listers, > I've noticed a very recent exponential increase in the amount of > returned mail I've been receiving...mail that I personally have not > sent. Every day I receive 20 or more messages about returned or > undeliverable mail, indicating recipients who seem pretty clearly to > have been generated by some random addresser bot that simply creates > addresses according to some algorithm. > My question is, what can I do about this? Is there any way to stop the > incoming flow? I imagine I could set my incoming filters, but if there's > somehow I can stop someone from using my email address to send messages, > that would be ideal? > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. > Thank you. > Jim Lerman > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.25/102 - Release Date: 09/14/2005 > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. > -- The Daily Glyph http://www.gomaya.com/glyph Usumacinta http://www.gomaya.com/dams Cell 917 312 9733 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
