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Sanford Aranoff

Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I
run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware.

How can I stop this?

Thanks.
 
Sanford Aranoff said:
Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I
run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware.

How can I stop this?

Thanks.
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if it's "without your knowledge" how do you know about it?
 
Gordon said:
if it's "without your knowledge" how do you know about it?
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Because I get email saying that it could not be delivered.

Is this what one calls a worm?
 
Sanford said:
Because I get email saying that it could not be delivered.

Is this what one calls a worm?
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The message does not necessarily mean that the e-mail is actually being
sent from your computer...just your e-mail address. And, yes, there are
Trojans (or worms) that attack other user's e-mail address books in order
to use the e-mail addresses they contain.
 
Sanford said:
Email is being sent without my knowledge from my computer. I
run BitDefender AV and Webroot antispyware.

How can I stop this?

Thanks.
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You apparently posted your real email address. That's how spammers and
virus writers get your email address. You should always munge your
address, i.e., change it to something incorrect. My address above will
cause an immediate error if someone tries to email me (because of the
word "invalid"). A spammer won't take the time to correct the address
because of the thousands of rejections, but an individual will see that
it needs a slight correction.
 
Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:49:16 -0500 from Sanford Aranoff
Because I get email saying that it could not be delivered.

Is this what one calls a worm?
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You're making an assumption, which is that the bounce messages are
going where they should.

More likely, I think is that some spammer is forging your address in
the return address field of its spams. Add to that the fact that some
idiot sysadmins still send bounce messages to the From or Reply-to
address, even when the Received headers don't match, and you get
bounce messages for mail you never sent.

I don't know of anything you can do about of it, short of laboriously
researching the sysadmin of each system that sends you a bounce
message and telling them to configure their system properly.
 
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