rw2003 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 A computer-related question for A String and all others.... My wife uses Outlook Express as her personal email client. Her emails are send/received from a select group of friends/family. Over the past few days her INBOX folder has received numerous Delivery Status Notification emails which have nothing to do with any of the msgs that she has sent out. My guess is that we have some type of virus and/or bot on our PC. Any help in figuring this out is appreciated. The incoming emails read as follows: From: Mail Delivery System To: my wifes email address Subject: Delivery Status Notification This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently: *swampfox@ft-i.net Technical Details SMTP:host 64.18.4.10: 550 no such user -psmtp "Spend all day doing nothing But we sure do it well" - Huck Johns from 'Oh Yeah' Click to Listen to Oh yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Could be a virus is trying to send emails to folks on your list to replicate itself. Do you recognize the recipients listed? I'd swing by an online virus scanner and let it do a full scan (a place like pandascan is a good place to start. Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumblyfingers Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Looks like a bug to me!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trucks Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Yeah could be a mass mail worm/bot etc on your comp. But also, it could be as simple as a spammer using your wifes e-mail address as the "Return Address". If you do not know the recipients, the latter is more likely. Soundclick Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyS Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 It could also be, and this is a lot more common, that the virus is on someone else's PC and it is using their address book to send out the email's with. That happens to me on occassion and I know it ain't my system because I use Eudora for my email and ain't seen a virus that went after that. Tony http://www.myspace.com/tonyseomusic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Speaking of weird email issues.. I know this is a bit OT, but I mention it for everyone's information, to protect yourselves. Something like that happened to our Ebay account a few weeks ago, though we only received a few return messages and they were "legitimate" emails, not delivery failure notifications. Someone had hacked into our account and used it to send questions to sellers of autos on Ebay. Somehow Ebay caught it before we saw the two messages and told us to change our passwords. Haven't had a problem since. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warthog Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Yeah could be a mass mail worm/bot etc on your comp. But also, it could be as simple as a spammer using your wifes e-mail address as the "Return Address". If you do not know the recipients, the latter is more likely. I agree with Trucks. It's probably nothing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 It wouldn't be a bad idea to switch to an alternative to Outlook Express, anyways... Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Last time I had a virus on my system, outlook was the reason - force-previewed a virus that had been renamed .jpg! A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Last time I had a virus on my system, outlook was the reason - force-previewed a virus that had been renamed .jpg! The trick to dealing with that is to turn off the preview window. Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trucks Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I switched from Outlook to carrier pidgeon... Then that damn HN51 came along.. So now I use smoke signals. Soundclick Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Last time I had a virus on my system, outlook was the reason - force-previewed a virus that had been renamed .jpg! The trick to dealing with that is to turn off the preview window. That's what I figured out - ex post facto. I dumped Outlook. I only use web-based mail now. A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 You should give Thunderbird a try. It's the Mozilla version, brother to Firefox. Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtail Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 You should give Thunderbird a try. It's the Mozilla version, brother to Firefox. I've used Thunderbird for at least 2 years now. Never had any problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trucks Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I dumped Outlook. I only use web-based mail now. Same here. I have used Thunderbird too, it is Ok, on a Linux system it would be my first choice, although the version I used in windows (little while ago mind you) kept crapping out. Soundclick Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Blackett Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I had the same thing happen and my ISP (comcast) told me to just change my password on their webmail and then change it on Outlook Express. It worked. I haven't gotten a single one of those after getting about 50 in two days. Matt Blackett Associate Editor Guitar Player Magazine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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