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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / January 2008a Mac virus? Bloody mailscanner
For the past couple of days many of my incoming emails have been infected with messages such as.... "The Lily Pond: MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "email.jacquielawson.com" claiming to be http://www.jacquielawson.com" These messages are inserted into the email, at several points' Also the subject header is changed by the inclusion of the word 'disarmed' in brackets My ISP say they know nothing about this infection or whatever it is and a search on spotlight doesn't show any such application on my 20" Intel imac running 10.4.11 A search on google shows there is an email scanning application named mailscanner that runs on Windows, but I am using OSX so.... David in article postings-784429.15520917012008@news.ceinternet.com.au, David at postings@REMOVE-TO-REPLYconfidential-counselling.com wrote on 17/1/08 2:52 PM: > For the past couple of days many of my incoming emails have been > infected with messages such as.... [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > David By infected do you mean emails from trusted people that have this extra text inserted into the message or just emails from random people with it in? If random I wouldnt worry too much - its one way they might use to beat junk filters. If its friends, it may be they are infected (and most likely running a PC). Are there any attachments? For me I have be getting lots of emails with the subject headers as "returned email: undeliverable" - this tends to get through junk and spam filters easily - or use to:) Nigel > For me I have be getting lots of emails with the subject headers as > "returned email: undeliverable" - this tends to get through junk and spam > filters easily - or use to:) Yes - that's where your email address has been forged to post spam. Last year at one stage, before my ISP dealt with the problem, I got 28000 (not joking!) of this sort of email in one month. You can work out what that was on a daily basis. I was worried that my ISP might think I had in fact been delivering spam and might toss me off, but they weren't concerned about that as it was such a common occurrence. Mercifully it has dropped to a few emails of that nature per week. Spamsieve does a good job. Rifty  Signatureriftynet - put a dot after rifty > in article postings-784429.15520917012008@news.ceinternet.com.au, David at > postings@REMOVE-TO-REPLYconfidential-counselling.com wrote on 17/1/08 2:52 [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > By infected do you mean emails from trusted people that have this extra text > inserted into the message Yes. Mail from senders that I have been dealing with for years such as MacNews, Jaquie Lawson, Golden Glow etc are showing these "MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from..." messages inserted And it is a problem - I strongly resent any program that adds or alters my emails without my permission David |
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