In message , Millers
writes
Fred Holder wrote:
I've been being bombarded with e-mail messages that say they are
returned mail
SNIP
Fred Holder
http://www.fholder.com

It used to be that a virus would look in a person's address book to
forge the from address. Anymore though, it's more likely that
someone's computer has been "owned" by a spammer. That is, the
spammers are often the one's writing viruses, which turn a users home
computer into a 'spam bot'. Most responsible email admins have
configured their servers to disallow sending email if you're not their
customer so the spammers create viruses that install themselves on home
users machines and use the spam lists as the from address.

Doubt that anybody is targeting you. One thing that might help in the
long haul is to make sure you don't have your email address on your web
site in a normal format. You can spell it out or there's various ways
to disguise it, but the spammers will harvest email addresses from web
sites ensuring that you're perpetually on their lists.

Glad you're using antivirus - important to keep it up to date on
Windows. (Sure is nice running Linux and not having to worry about all
that anymore!)


...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska

I agree with Kevin, the same has happened to me, somebody took my e-mail
address from somewhere and is now using it to send the same as you are
getting plus other rubbish, so far I estimate I have received in excess
of 10k return mails and junk, I have now set my reject list to reject
everything without a certain name in the header, it works a dream. It
only takes a couple of seconds to reject over 200 junk mails (which I am
still receiving daily). I refuse to change my e-mail address just to
suit these morons.

Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year

Bob `S`
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Robert Strudwick