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31 August 2003, 02:10 PM
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Do not, under any circumstances, reply or click on an un-subscribe link in the message, as all this does is confirm to the sender that they have reached a live email address - result 100 times the amount heading your way.
Do not, under any circumstances, reply or click on an un-subscribe link in the message, as all this does is confirm to the sender that they have reached a live email address - result 100 times the amount heading your way.
31 August 2003, 03:51 PM
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Since yesterday dinnertime I have been receiving loads of emails from sender:=MailScanner Title:=Unsolicited commercial email rejected.
The content of one such message says:
Our UCE (spam) detectors have been triggered by a message you sent:-
To: chris.l@scoobynet.co.uk, chris.l@scoobynet.co.uk
Subject: Re: Thank you!
Date: Sun Aug 31 15:38:06 2003
This message has been rejected. The detector that triggered is
SpamAssassin.
The content of your message indicates that it is probably spam e-mail,
which is why it has been rejected.
We do not accept unsolicited commercial (spam) e-mail and actively
work to stop it. If you are sending spam and continue to do so, your
Internet Service Provider may be contacted and requested to close your
account.
If you have any questions about this, or you believe you have received
this message in error, please contact the site system administrators.
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MailScanner
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www.mailscanner.info
Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
I do not understand, especially as I have not been online on 31/08/03 until 15:45 and these are from my webbased hotmail account not an outlook account.
I have had 20 of these in last 2 days, mostly in relation to webmaster@scoobynet.co.uk
I think that someone has grabbed email addresses from scoobynet and is using them as a spoof reply address to spam emails. I have never sent emails to anybody at scoobynet so it has not got them from my address book, and my hotmail address is not the one on my scoobynet profile, so I am baffled.
Hope someone can assist, I know scoobynet had some outage on 30/08/03, the day I started with this problems.
Regards,
Richard
The content of one such message says:
Our UCE (spam) detectors have been triggered by a message you sent:-
To: chris.l@scoobynet.co.uk, chris.l@scoobynet.co.uk
Subject: Re: Thank you!
Date: Sun Aug 31 15:38:06 2003
This message has been rejected. The detector that triggered is
SpamAssassin.
The content of your message indicates that it is probably spam e-mail,
which is why it has been rejected.
We do not accept unsolicited commercial (spam) e-mail and actively
work to stop it. If you are sending spam and continue to do so, your
Internet Service Provider may be contacted and requested to close your
account.
If you have any questions about this, or you believe you have received
this message in error, please contact the site system administrators.
--
MailScanner
Email Virus Scanner
www.mailscanner.info
Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
I do not understand, especially as I have not been online on 31/08/03 until 15:45 and these are from my webbased hotmail account not an outlook account.
I have had 20 of these in last 2 days, mostly in relation to webmaster@scoobynet.co.uk
I think that someone has grabbed email addresses from scoobynet and is using them as a spoof reply address to spam emails. I have never sent emails to anybody at scoobynet so it has not got them from my address book, and my hotmail address is not the one on my scoobynet profile, so I am baffled.
Hope someone can assist, I know scoobynet had some outage on 30/08/03, the day I started with this problems.
Regards,
Richard
31 August 2003, 05:31 PM
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That is my email address! I think what happened was that there was a subscriber to Scoobynet who got infected with the 'msblast' virus that has been doing the rounds over the last couple of weeks.
Once the virus is on your machine it takes entries from Outlook and other sources and replicates the virus to every email address it can find. What it also does is spoof the sender email to hide where it is coming from (hence why my name appears as the sender, which I most certainly was not).
Simon (webmaster) has traced and spoken to likely source, so I hope it won't happen again. However, this is one of the most agressive viruses around and I'm still receiving upwards of 10 to 20 emails a day from various sources.
Chris
That is my email address! I think what happened was that there was a subscriber to Scoobynet who got infected with the 'msblast' virus that has been doing the rounds over the last couple of weeks.
Once the virus is on your machine it takes entries from Outlook and other sources and replicates the virus to every email address it can find. What it also does is spoof the sender email to hide where it is coming from (hence why my name appears as the sender, which I most certainly was not).
Simon (webmaster) has traced and spoken to likely source, so I hope it won't happen again. However, this is one of the most agressive viruses around and I'm still receiving upwards of 10 to 20 emails a day from various sources.
Chris
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31 August 2003, 08:28 PM
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True Ian - although the point I'm making is that this is NOT coming from my machine and I don't want people making that association.
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