"real" email address got VIRUS BOMBED

[expletive]

Maybe I pissed someone off, or just a random thing.
For years I would only get a few imprtant business emails.
For last couple weeks some of the emails were from people I don't know saying I sent them a virus and they are all pissed--a few addys were from classmates.com. (never been to that site)

At least I didn't open sketchy looking attachments, and crash anthing on my machine, but now email sent to me gets bounced back as "delivery failed". (account is paid for next year) Domain mail server crashed or just a coincidence that it is down. Have paypal buttons on that addy, it's a drag.

I sent a test email to myself and got this back:

X-Apparently-To:
[email protected] via 216.136.131.40; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:39:25 -0700
Return-Path:
<>
Received:
from 209.153.216.17 (EHLO dpmail17.doteasy.com) (209.153.216.17) by mta227.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:39:25 -0700
Date:
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:14:01 -0700
Message-Id:
<[email protected]>
Mime-Version:
1.0
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
From:
"Postmaster" <[email protected]>_|_This is spam_|_Add to Address Book
Sender:
<[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]
Subject:
Undeliverable Mail
X-Mailer:
<SMTP32 v7.13>
X-IMSTrailer:
__IMail_7__
Content-Length:
888








Delivery failed 1 attempts: ____@_____parts.com
Original message follows.
Received: from web10906.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.42] by
dpmail17.doteasy.com
(SMTPD32-7.13) id A9384FF0070; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:14:00 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Received: from [64.63.215.178] by web10906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP;
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:12:14 PDT
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:12:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Check <[email protected]>
To: ____@____parts.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
kllk

 

[SofaGeorge]

It happens to everyone here. One dumbass on EF has an infected computer... and he never runs virus checks. He's been sending out infected emails (auto send) to everyone in his address book for a long time. The viruses automatically attach your email as the return address so people think the email is from you.

 

[expletive]

Thanks SofaGeorge, now I don't feel like a total turd. Will green you when I can.

 

[Liftbig]

how did you capture a pic of your screen?

 

[expletive]

You probably have something on your comp. now that will do a screen capture, but this
image viewer is free and good...
http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10180889.html?tag=lst-0-1
then go to:
options
capture
hotkey
start

then get the screen the way you want, hold down control
and bump f11 key or whatever it is set to.

 

[Liftbig]

cool, thanks.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Sounds more like you are on an RBL (real time black list).
Recently an RBL was given a DOS (denial of service), as a result, it was taken down.
The side effect of that is that anything that used that server to check mail against (for spam), will now show all addresses as spam.

Also, if a virus or spam looks like it is coming from someone's address - it isn't necessarily the case (and often isn't). You can fake the headers of an SMTP (e-mail) message, so it looks like someone else sent it to the person.
Many viruses and spam exploit this - as a result, whoever it is that has their address there, they get all the complaints that the e-mail generates.