The drawbacks of domain ownership...

[matgb]

For anyone reading this that's got a fuzzyduck.org email address off me at any point in the past, I have no idea how, who or why viruses are going out (again) "from" information@, info@ and register@ warning people that their account is going to expire, they've been caught abusing hte account, etc.

All, of course, complete bollocks, if I'm going to delete your email address, I'll tell you personally, and (given that I have an infinite number of them), it's not likely to happen any time soon to anyone. Thanks to shadow_exe for informing me of the problem, Jo Foster (who I hadn't heard of in years) also had the same thing; paulatpingu, you had anything?

They've been sent 'to' various other non-existent accounts as well, so much so that my abuse account is full in less than a month, it hasn't done that since mydoom/netsky first broke out. Ah well.

OTOH, if anyone out there in LJ land wants a free, permanent (well, for as long as I renew the domain and Doteasy don't go bust) POP3 email inbox and anything'at'fuzzyduck.org email address, let me know; they're going, um, free.

You just have to put up with occasional virus and spam sends; but, well, it's an email account, that's normal, right?

I'm supposed to be packing for Birmingham...

Edit: I've just been sent a warning that my account is due to be deleted by the admininistrator. Sent directly to the only inbox with administrator priviledges! There have also been sends to 'bob', 'maria' 'geoff' and a number of other people I've never heard of. Gah!

Comments

[maddock-ist-rad.livejournal.com]

There were some nasty virii supposedly using my forpersonaluse.co.uk address in the from header. Gawd knows why people bother.

[paulatpingu.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've had the occasional @fuzzyduck.org email complete with virus attatchment. I just ignored them - Thunderbird's spam filter is pretty good with stuff like that anyway.

And I don't get them any more than I get crap for viagra, cheap Windows XP or phishing mails, so don't worry about it too much.

[mapp.livejournal.com]

Basically, Mytob (which I guess you're talking about, as I seem to be receiving them occasionally now) harvests email addresses from infected computers and sends itself out, faking the sender so that it comes from "webmaster@" or "administrator@" or what-have-you. Oh, and it also tries to disable your virus scanner, and it's also a trojan.

Symantec have various removal tool programs if you want to make sure you've not got it. As for being able to stop it, there's not much you can do until nearly everyone has gotten rid of it. Le sigh, it looks like we'll be at this for a while.

[shadow-exe.livejournal.com]

Funniest thing about these emails is the sheer size of the attachment - nearly 3 times what your average email worm is at a hefty 200K. Assuming that's not just padding, or a complete relay to set-up the infected machine as a server to send more shite, then I would guess that as well as being dead unimaginative in the email header, these arses can't code, either...