OT: Email

A long shot but I just had a call from a client I do some work for, but
no web stuff, just printing.

They somehow seemed to think I would know something about the issue they
are experiencing with emails.

They say that emails are being automatically sent to certain clients of
theirs but they have actually not send any recent emails to them, also
they are recieving emails from client's that have not sent any.

Its out of my boundaries of knowledge, just wondered if anyone else here
thinks this is possible and how?

Thanks

Spoofers. Someone in that universe has been infected with a trojan, which
reads their email addresses, and then begins to spoof emails to them in
hopes of finding another sucker....

Each of these boxes becomes a zombie waiting to do a nasty DOS attack or to
send out hundreds if not thousands of spam emails.

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"Osgood" <notavailable (AT) atthisaddress (DOT) com> wrote

A long shot but I just had a call from a client I do some work for, but no
web stuff, just printing.

They somehow seemed to think I would know something about the issue they
are experiencing with emails.

They say that emails are being automatically sent to certain clients of
theirs but they have actually not send any recent emails to them, also
they are recieving emails from client's that have not sent any.

Its out of my boundaries of knowledge, just wondered if anyone else here
thinks this is possible and how?

Thanks

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Spoofers. Someone in that universe has been infected with a trojan, which
reads their email addresses, and then begins to spoof emails to them in
hopes of finding another sucker....

Serious? They say they have done a sweep of their system and can't find
any viruses lurking on it.

Each of these boxes becomes a zombie waiting to do a nasty DOS attack or to
send out hundreds if not thousands of spam emails.

Right sounds like fun. Oh well I don't know anything about it so I think
I'll pass on this one.

Thanks Murray

There is no way to know whose address book has been plundered, or who was
the primary infection.

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"Osgood" <notavailable (AT) atthisaddress (DOT) com> wrote

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Spoofers. Someone in that universe has been infected with a trojan,
which reads their email addresses, and then begins to spoof emails to
them in hopes of finding another sucker....

Serious? They say they have done a sweep of their system and can't find
any viruses lurking on it.

Each of these boxes becomes a zombie waiting to do a nasty DOS attack or
to send out hundreds if not thousands of spam emails.

Right sounds like fun. Oh well I don't know anything about it so I think
I'll pass on this one.

Thanks Murray

On 26 Oct 2005 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Osgood wrote:

Serious? They say they have done a sweep of their system and can't
find any viruses lurking on it.

It doesn't have to be on either of their boxes; it could be on the
computer of somebody (anybody) who has both of their email addresses.
One way to find out is to check the headers of the email; the IP address
of where it's coming from should be the lowest down. Do a web search for
more information on decoding spam headers.

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Joe Makowiec wrote:

It doesn't have to be on either of their boxes; it could be on the
computer of somebody (anybody) who has both of their email addresses.
One way to find out is to check the headers of the email; the IP address
of where it's coming from should be the lowest down. Do a web search for
more information on decoding spam headers.

Right thanks Joe, I'll pass this information on.