someone spoofed my email

[shaneen]

Hello I am writing this to apologize to anyone who has sent me an email but have not received a reply, also to anyone who may have received a email from my account with a virus attached. Someone spoofed my email and really did a number on it. I have a new email address now, one that is much more secure. Again I am very sorry and I hope that no one was affected from this. If you did receive a virus from my email please forward the name of the virus to my new email address the link is on my page at www.shaneensplayground.com and I will get you the program to have it taken off of your computer. Thanks
Shaneen

 

[zoickss]

Shaneen - If people have been getting viruses with your email on it - its not surprising - and its likely not your fault. Most of the latest viruses will put another email addy on itself - in other words - You email Jim or he has emailed you and your email address is stored in his email program (in most cases outlook or outlook express). Jim receives an email from John that has a virus on it - the virus sends itself out to every email address in his address book as well as every email addy in his inbox , sent email box and deleted items box (that hasn't been permanently deleted). So it likely not a case of "someone" spoofing your email - but a Virus doing the spoofing - no matter what type of protection you have - you cannot avoid this situation because its not your security at fault, but someelse's.

 

[mailman]

I have to agree with Zoickss...........

My Dad has been infected on a regular basis, why he won' let any of us configure his anti-virus software???????????????

I regularly get emails from other friends and family members that have a virus embedded in them. Once my anti-virus software takes care of the problem I can determine where the source of the email was.

In all cases, irregardless of what the sender's email addy was, it ends up relating back to my Dad's system.

One trick I heard of, but do not know if it works, is to put a fake email address, such as 111@111.com, in your address book.

If you get infected the virus will try to send to this addy and you end up getting an undeliverable email message back.

Unless you know 100% that you were infected, chances are someone who has your email address in their address book was infected and the virus sent emails out on your behalf.....

 

[shaneen]

spoofed cont.

I think it is a little more then that. I have had a tech come in and he discovered that my incoming messages were also redirected and a couple of other things, as well an advanced program from Norton has been installed and we have been informed of someone trying to get into our system. I am not sure exactly what is going on but I just changed my email address to be safe and I will let you know when we get this sorted out.
Shaneen