possible virus sending hotmail messages

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:59:44 -0500, David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Fenton" <no-spam.RemoveThis@thankyou.com>
>
>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:05:46 -0500, rongee wrote:
>>> She has Norton anti-virus on her machine and it did not register any
>>> problems.
>>
>> There is literally only one way to ensure a machine is completely clean:
>> format and reinstall the OS and applications from vendor-supplied media.
>
> There was never any indication there was an infection on the PC.
> Receiving "...numerous messages about 'undeliverd mail returned to
> sender'..." messages just means the HotMail email address was harvested
> and used by a third party.
>
>

Right. But considering the OP's words, "[we] closed that hotmail account, so
hopefully the problem has been solved," I wanted the OP to know that closing
an e-mail account does not clean a machine, if the OP thinks the machine is
infected.

And if indeed the daughter spent a good time on domains of the dot-RU nature,
I would be dollars to donuts she has some form of malware.
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These mails are considered as SPAM emails. This is because, when an user registers with any website, and the mail is being published/shown in any social networking site, it would be fetched by spammers. Which inturn results in such kind of email with the Failure notice.

This is used for many purposes by the spammers, it may be to get an virus to user's system, phishing attack, or even to confirm the email address to send newsletter / or even spyware.

So I would recommend you to have some computer security software, which will have Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, Anti-spyware and firewall. In the first instance, run a virus scan and then install an anti-spam software, to stop spam emails.

Thanks ,

R.Yuvaraj
K7 Computing
The PRO in Protection
http://www.k7computing.com
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