Just wondering if anyone can help me.
My anti-virus software is up to date and i use a firewall now that i'm on Broadband, but over the last couple of days i've been inundated with E-mails *allegedly* sent by me to other recipients which have been blocked and sent back. The last one said my IP address was on a blacklist which I don't know what effect this has on my standing in Cyberspace, but not being in IT, I don't know enough about computers to take the appropriate action. As you can imagine this is a bit of a pain cause the anti-virus software takes an age to sort out the mail, deleting the virus, before dropping it in the In-box and telling me of the situation. Is there anyway i can find out where this virus is using my address from? I suspected a couple of people that had been mailing me recently on a regular basis and notified them of the problem and asked them to ensure their anti-virus software was up to date and have reported back that they are clean. I ran a check on my PC yesterday (4 hours!!) and all bodes well. Any suggestions on what to do?, since i've run out of ideas!!! Any input appreciated! Driving me nuts!! Alan |
Sorry to say Alan that there's pretty much nothing you can do. The design of the email system allows this mess. I'm suffering here too and I work in the Antivirus industry. Even felt the need to install Antispam software at home yesterday for the first time in a good eight years. It's working rather well, but then I would say that.
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Thanks Jack
I had a spate of spam a while ago, usually two in one day, a day break, then another two the following day. This went on for about a week, then stopped thankfully. And it was the inevitable porn they wanted you to click on... :rolleyes: But this problem is bothering me because it's the first time i've had a mail "sent back" which indicated that the IP address was on a block list. Not being the most PC literate, i don't understand all the bumph they give back with the so called original message. It's just a load of mumbo jumbo to me.. :( What's to say that genuine mails from me will then become blocked despite not having a virus attached? Alan :cool: |
The messages you're recieving that appear to be sent back are most likely fake, just another way of tempting you into clicking on the attachment.
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