Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: CARPET KNIGHTS on March 01, 2008, 01:44:50 pm
-
have just got home and checked my email to find loads of delivery failure emails. They were sent from what seem to be random words @carpetknights.co.uk how can people do this and how do you stop it?
Cheers Goron
-
Hi Goron
My suffolk carpet cleaning site was spammed like this and I adjusted the filter to a higher level which stopped it.
Check your spam filters.
Cheers
Doug
-
Hi Doug
I don't mean that i am recieving spam i mean that i am recieving the delivery failure reports from email which has apparently been sent from my domain! :o :o
Cheers Goron
-
small sample of this mornings
-
Hi Goron
That is the type of spam i am talking about, somewhere in there you will probably find email offering to rid you of spam , probably from the same people who are generating it, I had 27 pages of it !
Cheers
Doug
-
is it possible that they have guessed your passwords
the was a warning a few days ago.... that do not open a certain email.....as this will enter into your adress book and send random emails from your email address
check inbox/outbox/sent/draft/ and also check contacts......delete any unknowns!!
change login details...
-
I get loads of that and was thinking of changing my email. will try the filter first and hope it stops
-
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/
use Thunderbird, kills spam dead and is self learning.
Goron, I'd say you have have a virus
-
My website for carpet fitting has only been live for 3 weeks and now I am getting 15 e-mails a day via my info page for thingy enlargement !
Asked my fiancee if she is sending them but she assures me she isn't !
-
Try seamonkey very fast and very good
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
-
What does it do to stop it Steve ?
-
filters the junk out like thunderbird
-
Try this piece of software. http://www.mailwasher.net/
Its free for 1 email address, $40 for more then one.
It looks at your email whilst on your server, you can choose not too receive it before it hits your computer.
I use the paid version and it works fine
-
I agree with Joe.
Mailwasher is a fantastic piece of software. It's free, self-learning and protects your computer as you only download emails from friends. You can also help with the battle of spam as you can bounce spam email back to its source and eventually your spam should decrease.
At one time I was getting on for 300 spam a day, now thankfully it's down to about 50. Because of the way mailwasher works you find you only have to look at maybe 2 or 3 new spam a day to work out if they are friend or foe. The rest is dealt with pretty automatically. In other words you don't have to wade through all the spam in you junk box just to check there aren't any emails there from friends which have inadvertently been labelled as spam.
I've upgraded to the non-free version but it's not expensive to renew every year and for peace of mind........
-
don't get the fact that these are spam emails coming to me as they are mail delivery failures bounced back to me after supposedly being sent from my domain!
They are just telling me that the emails that came from my domain couldn't be delivered.
If it is a virus then could it be on my websites server and not on my computer. I have always kept ontop of keeping my computers clean including occasionally running scans in safe mode.
Cheers Goron
-
just found this on the net
If you receive some kind of delivery failure notice about an email you never sent, I would be willing to bet this is a result of someone else who uses a computer that is infected with some kind of virus. I frequently receive some of these notifications as well every time there is a virus outbreak.
I will give a brief description of what probably is going on. What often happens is there someone who has either received an email from you or has your email address in their address book. They open up some attachment at some point that has a computer virus and the virus then starts churning out infected emails to all the addresses it can find on that computer. But in order for the virus to "hide" it's true location, the virus will not actually use the computer's actual email address. The virus may randomly grab other email addresses on the computer and use those email addresses in the "From" section of the email it sends out. In other words, it "spoofs" someone else's email address.
So some guy named George gets his computer infected with a computer virus and all the infected emails that are sent from his computer look like they come from a dozen different people, but they don't have George's email address anywhere to be seen. That makes the infected computer hidden to some degree and makes it harder to track down the actual machine that is infected.
But the problem is that if that infected email is sent to an email address that is no longer used or the address is wrong, the email server at that location will send a "Failed Delivery" notice back to the sender. Since the infected email is "spoofing" your email address as the sender, that "Failed Delivery" notice is then sent back to you even though you never sent the email in the first place. This is a side effect from these virus outbreaks.
So you end up receiving some kind of email delivery failure message resulting from an email that you never sent. But the kicker is that the warning message you are receiving may still have the virus attached to it. That is why you should never open the attachment to one of these messages unless you are 100% sure it is a legitimate notice sent to you about an email you actually tried to send.
Cheers Goron