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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:27 am
Post subject: possible virus sending hotmail messages
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My daughter is getting numerous messages about 'undeliverd mail
returned to sender', to her hotmail account. About 85 the other day
and 45 today. She is not sending anything herself but was looking for
a russian book on some obscure websites using that email address, so
it looks to me like some sort of virus activity but only effecting
one hotmail account.
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:42 am
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On 08 Feb 2008, rongee <ron6a DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in alt.comp.virus:
> My daughter is getting numerous messages about 'undeliverd mail
> returned to sender', to her hotmail account. About 85 the other day
> and 45 today. She is not sending anything herself but was looking for
> a russian book on some obscure websites using that email address, so
> it looks to me like some sort of virus activity but only effecting
> one hotmail account.
Not necessarily. It could be a "Joe Job", that is, a batch of spam sent
out with your daughter's address listed as the From and/or Reply-to
address. Any invalid To: addresses would then bounce back to her.
There's nothing you can do about that except to delete the messages. It
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:35 pm
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:17 pm
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From: "rongee" <ron6a DeleteThis @hotmail.com>
| My daughter is getting numerous messages about 'undeliverd mail
| returned to sender', to her hotmail account. About 85 the other day
| and 45 today. She is not sending anything herself but was looking for
| a russian book on some obscure websites using that email address, so
| it looks to me like some sort of virus activity but only effecting
| one hotmail account.
| Any suggestions please?
This could be what 'Nil' stated.
Additionally, someone your daughter sent mail to is infected with an email worm.
That email worm then harvested all email addresses found on the infected PC and then uses
the address as both the 'from' address as well as send itself (the worm) to the harvested
addresses.
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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp >> Stay informed about: possible virus sending hotmail messages |
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:04 pm
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Now getting hundreds of "returned failed mail messages". Don't know
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On 8 Feb, 09:27, rongee <ro... DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
> My daughter is getting numerous messages about 'undeliverd mail
> returned to sender', to her hotmail account. About 85 the other day
> and 45 today. She is not sending anything herself but was looking for
> a russian book on some obscure websites using that email address, so
> it looks to me like some sort of virus activity but only effecting
> one hotmail account.
> Any suggestions please? >> Stay informed about: possible virus sending hotmail messages |
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:34 pm
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:00 pm
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:22:31 -0500, Buzzard wrote:
> but was looking for a russian book on some obscure
> websites using that email address
If what you mean was that to look up information she had to use some obscure
web sites and had to provide her e-mail address ... then her e-mail is
definitely now the 'sender' of spam by other machines, and possibly, her
machine is now a sender, too. If those obscure sites were Russian, well,
it's all over! >> Stay informed about: possible virus sending hotmail messages |
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:05 am
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:16 pm
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:04 pm
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Manatee Memories <royalfeline!REMOVE!@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:9rvlr3lf8aqqu18l2adlb4b1beidupoo3t@news.manatee.glurp:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:05:46 -0800 (PST), rongee <ron6a DeleteThis @hotmail.com>
> wrote, by way of
> <79b4d7f9-ac8a-40ec-9a9e-2da585776e22 DeleteThis @k2g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, in
> alt.comp.virus -->
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>>Thanks for the advice.
>>My daughter has now closed that hotmail account, so hopefully the
>>problem has been solved. She has Norton anti-virus on her machine and
>>it did not register any problems.
>>Cheers
>>Ron
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> Please, _please_ DUMP_ Norton (AV)! A _much_ better scanner would be
the
> "Symantec" (Corporate) variety, if one feels the need to stick with
> anything from the "Norton/Symantec" line.
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> Failing either of the above 2, I'd heartily suggest "BitDefender
> Antivirus Plus v10.247", which is what I use. In addition, there is
> something named "BitDefender AntiVirus 2008" (which I've not tried).
Sound advice. I too agree, BitDefender is a very kewl av/antispyware
suite. It's not too bad on system resources either.
However, with that said..
AVG and superantispyware are also very fine tools; and make a good pair.
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Dustin Cook - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:52 pm
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:03 pm
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From: "Manatee Memories" <royalfeline!REMOVE!@hotmail.com>
>> Sound advice. I too agree, BitDefender is a very kewl av/antispyware
>> suite. It's not too bad on system resources either.
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>> However, with that said..
>> AVG and superantispyware are also very fine tools; and make a good pair.
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| AVG, unfortunately, has something of a history, re "finding malware"
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All anti virus application have False Positive decrarations. The question is how long does
it take to correct them. A good example would be Avast which was incorrectly flagging
microsoft web pages as being infected with the VBS:Zulo back around Oct. '06.. It took over
60 days to be corrected.
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http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:45 pm
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:47 pm
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Manatee Memories <royalfeline!REMOVE!@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:d9gmr35t1hsd8l69mmnahvi0teljoloaim@news.manatee.glurp:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:04:18 GMT, Dustin Cook
> <bughunter.dustin RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote, by way of
> <Xns9A4986E4B464FHHI2948AJD832 RemoveThis @69.28.186.121>, in alt.comp.virus -->
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>>Manatee Memories <royalfeline!REMOVE!@hotmail.com> wrote in
>>news:9rvlr3lf8aqqu18l2adlb4b1beidupoo3t@news.manatee.glurp:
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>>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:05:46 -0800 (PST), rongee <ron6a RemoveThis @hotmail.com>
>>> wrote, by way of
>>> <79b4d7f9-ac8a-40ec-9a9e-2da585776e22 RemoveThis @k2g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
>>> in alt.comp.virus -->
>>>
>>>>Thanks for the advice.
>>>>My daughter has now closed that hotmail account, so hopefully the
>>>>problem has been solved. She has Norton anti-virus on her machine
>>>>and it did not register any problems.
>>>>Cheers
>>>>Ron
>>>
>>> Please, _please_ DUMP_ Norton (AV)! A _much_ better scanner would be
>>> the
>>> "Symantec" (Corporate) variety, if one feels the need to stick with
>>> anything from the "Norton/Symantec" line.
>>>
>>> Failing either of the above 2, I'd heartily suggest "BitDefender
>>> Antivirus Plus v10.247", which is what I use. In addition, there is
>>> something named "BitDefender AntiVirus 2008" (which I've not tried).
>>
>>Sound advice. I too agree, BitDefender is a very kewl av/antispyware
>>suite. It's not too bad on system resources either.
>>
>>However, with that said..
>>AVG and superantispyware are also very fine tools; and make a good
>>pair.
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> AVG, unfortunately, has something of a history, re "finding malware"
> where none truly exists.
All scanners have such a history.It's a false positive, it happens. The
trick per say is how fast does the vendor/author resolve the issue.
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Dustin Cook - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:11 pm
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:05:46 -0500, rongee wrote:
> My daughter has now closed that hotmail account,
Closing the account won't address any rogue software the computer may have.
In fact, closing the account was unnecessary ... hmm, actually, I didn't
think you could ever "close" a Hotmail account; all you can do it stop using
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