Mail compromised?
I have received several emails supposedly from people in my address book. Their name appears in the header, but the email address is not theirs. The senders do not know each other. As far as I know it is only me receiving these emails. It would seem that I am the common denominator. a sample. On 8/08/12 1:15 AM, Paul x schroederhe...@yahoo.de http://frontlines.org/images/ 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM Any ideas for me on this one? TIA Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mail compromised?
On 22/08/2012, at 5:35 AM, Kevin Lock kal...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have received several emails supposedly from people in my address book. Their name appears in the header, but the email address is not theirs. The senders do not know each other. As far as I know it is only me receiving these emails. It would seem that I am the common denominator. a sample. On 8/08/12 1:15 AM, Paul x schroederhe...@yahoo.de http://frontlines.org/images/ 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM Any ideas for me on this one? If the emails are not a form of advertising (ie, SPAM), then you're probably simply the victim of a virus running on the computer of someone you may have never even met. This type of virus typically infects a Windows computer at some point, usually through an email attachment, and starts sending random emails to random email addresses in the user's address book, with a copy of itself as an attachment, thereby spreading the problem. The more vicious ones will choose one address for the To address and another for the From address, so it becomes impossible to determine from where the original behaviour started. In your case it simply means that someone you have sent an email to at some point has become infected with one of these things. There's not much you can do about these unfortunately except ignore them. Try to determine if there's any consistency about them which you can filter out by means of a Rule so you move them out of your Inbox if possible, but under no circumstances should you reply to any of them. If the emails are truly random your reply will be pointless, and if they are malicious in any way you are simply confirming your existence on the Net and their frequency will increase. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mail compromised?
Peter, thanks for your reassuring comments. I will, however, be spooked if someone else gets a bogus email from me. Regards, Kevin On 22/08/12 9:57 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 22/08/2012, at 5:35 AM, Kevin Lock kal...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have received several emails supposedly from people in my address book. Their name appears in the header, but the email address is not theirs. The senders do not know each other. As far as I know it is only me receiving these emails. It would seem that I am the common denominator. a sample. On 8/08/12 1:15 AM, Paul x schroederhe...@yahoo.de http://frontlines.org/images/ 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM Any ideas for me on this one? If the emails are not a form of advertising (ie, SPAM), then you're probably simply the victim of a virus running on the computer of someone you may have never even met. This type of virus typically infects a Windows computer at some point, usually through an email attachment, and starts sending random emails to random email addresses in the user's address book, with a copy of itself as an attachment, thereby spreading the problem. The more vicious ones will choose one address for the To address and another for the From address, so it becomes impossible to determine from where the original behaviour started. In your case it simply means that someone you have sent an email to at some point has become infected with one of these things. There's not much you can do about these unfortunately except ignore them. Try to determine if there's any consistency about them which you can filter out by means of a Rule so you move them out of your Inbox if possible, but under no circumstances should you reply to any of them. If the emails are truly random your reply will be pointless, and if they are malicious in any way you are simply confirming your existence on the Net and their frequency will increase. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
