i think my e-mail has been spoofed...it looks as if my user account is being used to send spam mail packages with the "mydoom" virus...for the past few days i have been getting atleast 12 infected e-mails bounced back to my account...any ideas how to stop this?
While it's certainly a possibility that YOUR computer is infected, and sending out the spam messages, be advised that it's also possible that this problem does NOT reside in your machine, but rather, the problem may reside completely in someone else's machine (a friend, colleague, or acquaintance of yours) who "knows" your e-mail address. Because one of the features of these e-spamming viruses is to
FORGE e-mails from the infected machine, using names it finds in its address book . If that's what happened... if the problem is on an acquaintance's machine [and not yours], then no matter what you do to try to clean YOUR machine won't help.... the e-mails will continue until that acquaintance gets
his/hermachine cleaned.
I'd like to assume it's not my computer that is infected (however it could be)...i posted a few days ago, and you were all kind enough to give me suggestions...such as stinger, HJT, sigver, my own McAfee software, and nothing shows up on any of the scans...is there any way for me to track down the IP address of the infected e-mails?
if all three tools agree that you're clean, then you can reasonably conclude the mydoom problem is on an acquaintances computer rather than yours [or else it might be something other than "mydoom"]
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Posted April 9th, 2006 11:00