Virus help

[OneSlowEclipse]

OK all you computer guroos...

I keep receiving viruses today in my email. The weird thing is that I'mm getting them in two different email accounts, my main and my hotmail which I dont use for anything. I have Norton so its catching them, but is there anyway I can find out where they are coming from??

[DlandryTSI]

I've been getting those also and they come from a bogus domain name.

--Dave

[XakEp]

Originally posted by OneSlowEclipse
OK all you computer guroos...

I keep receiving viruses today in my email. The weird thing is that I'mm getting them in two different email accounts, my main and my hotmail which I dont use for anything. I have Norton so its catching them, but is there anyway I can find out where they are coming from??

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[OneSlowEclipse]

could you elaborate on that lol??

[XakEp]

Get the IP address of the redirector, work from there...

[OneSlowEclipse]

OK now in english perhaps, I have found several IP addresses but they all seem to come from the server from which my mail comes from. They are coming from hotmail accounts so I guess its sorta hopeless to find out anyway.

[XakEp]

If they ARE coming from a Hotmail address, simply write to adbuse@hotmail.com and give them the email address and request the IP address so that you can get the spammer shut down. Also, recommend that they block the class "C" address of the spammer, that should keep them from ever accessing an MSN site ever again. Well, at least on THIS side of this century.

[john]

The klez virus is fairly clever. It does a rewrite of the SMTP header before sending itself down the line. If you would NOT use outlook as your email client (netscape works VERY well, and is NOT suspect to all the bullshit holes that micro$haft is), then there'd be no issue.

Klez reads your outlook address book (as well as any addresses you've "collected") and sends itself to all of them, but prior to doing so, it rewrites the header so that it appears to be coming from someone else in your address book.

I read mail with a text client most of the time and can see all the mail headers, which your normal "Joe Windows" user isn't going to see or be aware of.

Go do a google search on klez.

[XakEp]

Ditto what john said

[OneSlowEclipse]

So do I have any other options besides outlook?? I have att&t braodband and you have to use something to download email off the server. I know outlook is bad news as a lot of viruses target it.

[john]

Like I said in the above post. Netscape. It's free, it works very well, and it's not microsoft.

[OneSlowEclipse]

Thank you for the info, I have netscape all set up now so I'll see how it works out.

[tekky]

I know this is an old thread but if you prefer the outlook type look, try Eudora Lite (Light?) similiar interface w/o all the problems either. And OE can show headers... just have to tell it to btw ;) As far rewriting of the headers thats possible, however if you read the full header, the smtp server will tag it with the identd username/ip of the sending party... s'how I got 'secret admirer mail bomber' shutdown... some people are just idiots when it comes to being stupid...

Hope that helps ya out if you're still having problems

ps. of course I understand anon email services counter that aspect, but they should also be logging connections for legal purposes so that avenue should also be pursuable...