Re: Peculiar email doings

[Andrew Rodger]

This is symptomatic of a common problem which is caused by a worm or 
virus on a PC which may use Outlook and has your address in the address 
book.  There is no cause for worry as such, though it is a pain to have 
your address being misused and abused. You need to seek out whomsoever 
it was who allowed the infection and tell them not to be so sloppy with 
their protection; if they must, bizarrely, insist on having a PC they 
should use it responsibly, OR, keep your email address out of their 
address book OR, suggest they get a Mac Mini and reuse their old 
screen, keyboard and mouse:0)

I would say the best thing to do is to try to avoid passing it on to 
other PC users and I think I am right in saying that this is unlikely 
unless you use Outlook (according to my discussions with BT Satellite 
today).  you could bounce the mail but I would just bin it.  There 
should be no way the virus can propagate itself in your computer.  With 
luck the flow will stop and you can keep your address with no ill 
effects.

Drew
On 18 Jan 2005, at 00:50, RP McKay wrote:
On 17/1/05 11:39 pm, "nhc_design2004" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote (in
part):

I have received a couple of messages saying an email I have sent from 
one of
my other addresses was undeliverable. The thing is that the addresses 
to
which they were sent mean nothing to me and what's more the times 
that they
were sent I was not online. In fact the machine was turned off as I 
was
elsewhere.

Has someone hijacked the email address for spam or virus spreading 
and if so
what can I do about it?
Sounds like it. Webmail addresses seem to be particularly bad for this
(hotmail, aol, yahoo, etc...). AOL had a situation a while back where 
an
employee sold several million addresses to spammers for money and even 
if it
wasn't done by this manner, it is very possible someone has harvested 
your
address. The only known cure (AFAIK) is to get another address once 
this one
becomes unbearable for spam. (And to be careful about how you use an
important address that you might need for example for work...I have 
seen
several people try to get around this by using only dedicated list or 
web
addresses (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) for lists or other surfing 
where the
address are more likely to be harvested and that way once the address 
is
spammed to death they simply drop it and get another.

Googling for your address doesn't seem to bring up much other than the
mailing lists so it doesn't seem to be that widely spread yet...
But hell, I'm no expert...someone else have a go?
HTH,
Richard
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