[Healeys] Spam E-mail

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

Well dogonit Len I was just about to order some Cialis from you. I was looking
forward to that four hours... Well never mind.

> From: thehartnetts at earthlink.net
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:40:55 -0700
> Subject: [Healeys] Spam E-mail
>
> THIS ONE IS FROM ME!  The spam e-mail that you have been receiving was NOT
> sent by me.  The last e-mail that I sent to The List had a link to the Fraz
> comic strip.  From what I understand, this is not the link that is in any of
> the spam e-mail that you have been receiving.
>
> The first person to contact me about this situation was a Lister on 10/3 .
> I responded to him through The Healey Mail List asking, "what message"?  I
> further stated that I had received over 50 'failure to deliver' messages
> that morning. Many of them to recipients that are not on the Healey Mail
> List. Someone get into my address book? If they were valid address, why did
> they fail to deliver?  Did their security programs block them?
>
> What I noted was that although the names were familiar, the servers were not
> the same as currently in my address book.  Of 19 addresses checked, only
> three were as shown in my Address Book.  Nineteen were familiar names but
> the servers were different.  Five were addresses/names that I did not know.
>
> I asked if anyone else on The List had gotten a bad e-mail from me.  No one
> responded.  That has changed over the last couple of days.  I ran all my
> security scans again to see if anything showed up.  Avast - nothing.
> AdAware - only cookies.  However, SuperAntiSpyware noted two critical
> threats.  They say they removed them.  I could not tell what they were
> because full addresses were not provided.  What was shown for both was,
> "c:\USERS\LEONARD-PC\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Wi...\webfile".  I consider
> myself somewhat computer challenged (duh!) and those did not give me any
> clues as to what the threat was.
>
> My computer has not been turned on yesterday and most of today.  When I
> turned it on about 4:30 PM, I had 184 e-mails, 46 of which were "Mail
> Delivery System" noting failed deliveries or returned messages.  There were
> several other "From" addresses stating virtually the same thing.
>
> Since I do not have the technical knowledge to resolve this problem, any
> assistance that anyone can give in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
>
> (The Other) Len
> Vacaville, CA, USA
> 1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031
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