Re: [PCTECH] Spam from myself?!

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

youch ... just reject them.  If they get a bounce back, they'll double check
their address and resend it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ritsema, Doug B" <Doug.Ritsema@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:08 AM
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Spam from myself?!


> We have a situation were our domain name is being used to create false
> addresses for spamming and we are getting the bounce backs when the Spam
> goes to a bad address.  We could reject all e-mail with bad addresses but
> what if a customer sends an e-mail that is only off by a character?  So we
> sort through the bounce backs...
>
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan E. [mailto:steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:42 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Spam from myself?!
>
>
> I heard about that too, and I've gotten those too, but there
> are some of these security packages that have an option to
> return an email like this. One security expert article in
> one of the trade mags even said they limited this option to
> only once per from-address!
>
> Some correspondents have certainly had these infections that
> have tried to infect me, and I've caught them, and no virus
> or such ever got me till Blaster got my XP, through a hole
> that who'd 've thought it.
>
> - Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users"
> <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Spam from myself?!
>
>
> | At 08:37 PM 12/1/2003, you wrote:
> | >Happened to me some months back. I got a bunch of emails
> | >from spam-blockers *and* virus-blocker software telliing
> me
> | >it was an automatic reply to inform me I had sent them
> | >dangerous email. At a time I know I was clean. Yow!
> |
> | That wasn't spam ... that was the Klez or Sobig virus
> trying to replicate
> | itself.  Someone who you corresponded with at some point
> was infected.
> |
> | david
> |
> |
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