Mail Delivery Notice (Failure)

[KIP]

I'm getting hammered by Mail Delivery notice failures for mail that I'm not
sending out. Nothing shows on Norton as a virus. Anyone have any clues how
to stop these.

[W.S. Blevins]

Post by KIP
I'm getting hammered by Mail Delivery notice failures for mail that I'm not
sending out. Nothing shows on Norton as a virus. Anyone have any clues how
to stop these.

See other threads on the topic. There are many.

[Bruce]

Post by W.S. Blevins

Post by KIP
I'm getting hammered by Mail Delivery notice failures for mail that
I'm not sending out. Nothing shows on Norton as a virus. Anyone have
any clues how to stop these.

See other threads on the topic. There are many.

If you don't have the sobig.f virus, then someone that has your email
address on their system does have the virus and is sending out these emails
to you (and others), sometimes with your name in the From: field. If the
To: field used is invalid, you get the bounced mail at your address.

All you can do is delete these. They are not harmful.

Go to mcafee or symantec and you'll see how this latest email virus works.


Bruce

[n***@novirus.com]

Post by Bruce

Post by W.S. Blevins

Post by KIP
I'm getting hammered by Mail Delivery notice failures for mail that
I'm not sending out. Nothing shows on Norton as a virus. Anyone have
any clues how to stop these.

See other threads on the topic. There are many.

If you don't have the sobig.f virus, then someone that has your email
address on their system does have the virus and is sending out these emails
to you (and others), sometimes with your name in the From: field. If the
To: field used is invalid, you get the bounced mail at your address.
All you can do is delete these. They are not harmful.

sorry, I believe that's wrong. Some return the entire msg, but attachments are
base64 encoded, so they'd be safe (if no auto-decode goes on). As are those
that return less than the entire msg.

But some MXs do return the *entire* message, including the pif in it's
original form. So, they'd seem to be about as dangerous as the originally
mailed worm.