[Healeys] Hartnett Spam

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 05:50:35 MDT 2011


It's even more complicated than that!  They can spoof an email address in
your address book and use that address as the sender address, so even if
your computer is the one that is infected it is sending out emails under
someone else's name.

Either way someone's account somewhere is FUBAR.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Eric (Rick) Wilkins <e-wilkins at cox.net>wrote:

> Actually, these can be more complicated than that. They don't copy your
> address book, they exploit features of your mail program to actually
> forward
> the spam through your email account.
> For these types of email "viruses" you actually need to track your sent
> items
> and turn off features that can be used in this way.
>
> Wilko
>
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Editorgary at aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 10/5/11 9:57:39 PM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> > writes:
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> > Nothing you can now do at your end, Len. Someone or something has gotten
> > hold of one of your old address books and is using it to send out the
> > messages.
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