On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:14:28PM +1000, Chris Freeman wrote:
> Bounces to forged email addresses warning people of the virus should be
> considered in the same category as SPAM. This is a real nuisance,
Some AV companies have clue:
http://www.nod32.com.au/nod32/news/spamvertising.htm
Or roughly 1/3 of the mail volume, by message count, is crap from badly
configured servers!
It gets really annoying when you try to inform the postmaster and get
this ...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your message was not delivered to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
because:
User Postmaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED
Chris Freeman wrote:
John Clarke wrote:
My usual response is something like this sent to the postmaster at the
site which sent the virus notification:
> WARNING! Your message was infected by VIRUS:
> Worm.SomeFool.Z
Well done. You bloody idiot.
I just want to accentuate this point. If yo
Title: RE: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails
We get tonnes of calls at work about this exact problem. People receiving emails saying they sent an email to someone else but it was rejected because of an attached virus.
It’s the doing of one of the latest windows viruses I believe
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004, Jared Pritchard wrote:
> Any idea how we might try and find the real source AND/OR should we
> report the abuse to some authority of some sort?
You'd need the headers of the original mail to find the machine that
passed the virus to the machine with the detector. You probab
Thank you ppl -
That puts my mind to rest -
and thanks to the flood of fast responses!! Appreciated! =)
In case anyone else has missed it - here's a summary
A spammer or virus will forge (and most likely has in our case) a domain to
mask their own presence, so when the recipient replies (individ
John Clarke wrote:
My usual response is something like this sent to the postmaster at the
site which sent the virus notification:
> WARNING! Your message was infected by VIRUS:
> Worm.SomeFool.Z
Well done. You bloody idiot.
Bloody idiot indeed!
You've notified the one person you
e sure that
> > representatives of the whole political spectrum will be there?
> >
> To: Jared Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Slug List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bcc:
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails
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> In-Reply-To: <
> All right. What an explosive cocktail of themes! Did you make sure that
> representatives of the whole political spectrum will be there?
>
To: Jared Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Slug List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bcc:
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay email
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jared Pritchard wrote:
> Hi -
> Got a little problem. =)
> We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message
> from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an
> attached virus.
we get these all the time. It's a result of spammers
Jared Pritchard wrote:
>
> Hi -
> Got a little problem. =)
> We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message
> from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an
> attached virus.
Umm, you have a user "130Qe49y1" do you?
...snip.
> Has anyone got
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:32, Jared Pritchard wrote:
> Hi -
> Got a little problem. =)
> We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message
> from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an
> attached virus.
[..snip..]
> Has anyone got ANY idea on what c
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:32:01AM +1000, Jared Pritchard wrote:
> Has anyone got ANY idea on what could be happening? Has our linux server got
> a virus? (!?!!?!!) Is someone using our machine as an open relay? (I did
No. All the latest viruses forge the sender address. Someone else is
infecte
on Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:32:01AM +1000, Jared Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi -
> Got a little problem. =)
> We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message
> from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an
> attached virus.
We get tonnes
> Hi -
> Got a little problem. =)
If you let me know your domain you are refering too, I will test it for
being an open relay (which is bad, you shouldn't be configured as an open
relay)
Is the domain @mactel.net.au or something else?
Thanks
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Hi -
Got a little problem. =)
We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message
from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an
attached virus.
Our server is running Linux 7.3 and it has only started happening in the
last few months.
Our other workstati
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