At 11:36 AM 9/7/2002 +0100, you wrote: >I've just received an email with a virus attached (Good old Norton >squashed it as it came in!) but it appears to have come from an email >address at a website that I run for our local church. Now this mail >address isn't shown anywhere on the site - I just use it when I want to >test anything out. > >Is there any way I can try and trace the perpetrator as this had a porn >message - not the sort of thing the church is in to! - so I'd like to try >and squash the senders mailbox. The address from which it was sent was >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and there's no other info in header - but it did >address me using a password I have for the system. Our clergyman and the >church administrator rarely use the system other than to download emails >(it was installed at the insistance of the bishop who is very computer >literate and is bombarding everyone with e-mails etc!!! I've never had an >email from there before (they get me to send them out for them as they are >terrified of the PC - it's an age thing!) > >The church, by the way, also has Norton on it's system - I've seen to that >long ago! > >Any ideas as to action to be taken? > >Peter MacGregor
Hi Peter, This has happened to me a few times. I had posted to the group and the two general answers I got was that first of all, if you have any cgi forms on your site/s that use formmail, change it over to a php form via email. Secondly, visit SpamCop: http://spamcop.net/ One thing about this is read EVERYTHING and keep in mind that you must submit the offending email w/in 3 days or you can't submit it, Spamcop won't take it after 3 days. It's a free service (paid version available also). Deb ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
