E-mail harassement

Hello all,
I was wondering if anybody has any good ideas about any good mail washers out there. I have a person who is e-mailing me all the time with no message body and sometimes they want me to go to a wierd website to update my settings for my PC. I have tried to check this persons IP with an IPLOG and it seems like this person is hiding behind a proxy server. How do I stop this person? Any ideas? Take a look at the e-mail example below.

X-Apparently-To: [email protected] via 216.136.226.59; 11 Jul 2003 08:23:32 -0700 (PDT)
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 65.16.28.104
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from 65.16.28.104 (EHLO NS4.hometc.com) (65.16.28.104) by mta107.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2003 08:23:31 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from Npn (192.168.1.47 [192.168.1.47]) by NS4.hometc.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 33ZD2VDL; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:21:53 -0500
From: "woa" <[email protected]> | This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: [email protected]
Subject: Your password
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=UQF5t9vS677nhg4g9VEtvBnX28pQ05393ZDix
Content-Length: 57970

Under 'Mail Option" in yahoo mail, you will find:

Block Addresses
Block addresses from which you don't want to receive mail.

From there you can block the person so that you will not receive mail from them.
Hotmail, if you block someone will send them a message that they are blocked at that account, and they may just send you more from anouther address. I don't know if yahoo sends the same message out or not.

Get a new e-mail address if what you wrote is true at all....

www.mailwasher.net has the spam washer that ROCKS!!!

Hey Allen, thanks a bunch for that mailwasher! It does rock! It was EXACTLY what I was looking for! Hey 2truth, yea, try out www.mailwasher.net like allenb1963 suggests!

I'd just like to say that it'd be a bad idea to respond to this person in any way. It may be painfully obvious, but I figured I'd mention it just in case....

Here's another good one http://www.pcmedixwebs.com/mail_washer.htm but mailwasher is better in my opinion. Just give it a try.

Cya

Thanks all,
As to the first part of the response, the person keeps changing their e-mail address each they e-mail me. In the begginning I tried to block addresses with yahoo, but they still got through with a new e-mail address. I am going to try that mail washer and see if it works. But the website says the free download will not work with hotmail. But the pro version does. What's the difference? Thanks again.

The Pro version allows you to use mailwasher on multiple accounts and adds in functionality that allows access to and filtering of HTTP based email. Hey....the free version works well enough on its own to justify the $20 price that the pro version carries IMHO.

Thanks everybody. What I need is a mailwasher for the HTTP based e-mail so that I can stop this person from messing with my personal yahoo account. I also did some more resarch and found this other website with this other mailwasher. What do you all think of this one?
http://www.visualware.com/mailwasherpro/index.html . Thanks again for all the helpful responses.

I also recommend you ensure your antivirus protection is up to date. The example that you post has a subject line which is related to the Klez virus.

Quote:

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Random strings comprise the email message that this worms sends. The subject can be one of the following:

Worm Klez.E immunity
Undeliverable mail--"[Random word]"
Returned mail--"[Random word]"
a [Random word] [Random word] game
a [Random word] [Random word] tool
a [Random word] [Random word] website
a [Random word] [Random word] patch
[Random word] removal tools
how are you
let's be friends
darling
so cool a flash,enjoy it
your password
honey
some questions
please try again
welcome to my hometown
the Garden of Eden
introduction on ADSL
meeting notice
questionnaire
congratulations
sos!
japanese girl VS playboy
look,my beautiful girl friend
eager to see you
spice girls' vocal concert
japanese lass' sexy pictures

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You can find info on this virus HERE

Cheers:

DJM,
This is very good info. I recognize the keywords like "sos"and "your password". But there are no attachments in the e-mails and no message in the body. Every now and then I will get one with an Windows update and a link to a website in the body. I suspect that this person is trying to fake the virus ID because I have used IP locator and sent a message to the ISP to notify them of the abuse and they have done nothing. It's seems that this guy is using a proxy server to hide himself and faking the identity of the virus so that he can claim ignorance if caught. I am saving all his e-mails in a special folder so that if I ever find him.......

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Originally posted here by 2truth
DJM,
This is very good info. I recognize the keywords like "sos"and "your password". But there are no attachments in the e-mails and no message in the body. Every now and then I will get one with an Windows update and a link to a website in the body. I suspect that this person is trying to fake the virus ID because I have used IP locator and sent a message to the ISP to notify them of the abuse and they have done nothing. It's seems that this guy is using a proxy server to hide himself and faking the identity of the virus so that he can claim ignorance if caught. I am saving all his e-mails in a special folder so that if I ever find him.......

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Sending an e-mail to the ISP is quite likely useless. The virus spoofs the "from" address and screws up the mx record, therefore the real sender is hidden. As for the attachments, I don't use yahoo mail, but, they may have a virus gateway which will strip the attachment before sending the body of the e-mail through to you. At my shop I get between 100 to 200 virus hits a day on my gateway. Best suggestion, keep your avtivirus up to date, and just delete these e-mails, you won't be able to track them.

Cheers:

Thanks DJM,
I have saved as many as I could before I didn'y realize what was happening and I deleted them. As for the aitvirus protection, well I use a firewall and a program called spybot search and destroy. I hate the anti virus updates you have to do and i read this huge article that antiviruses are just a big rip-off by the companies because they hold back the cure and force people to update there software. I do not open any attachments unless I am certain. And I only use Yahoo because my personal e-mail address has changed because of moving so many times and having to change ISP's and the hassle of notifying all your friends and family of the e-mail change. So yahoo works better than Hotmail in my book. And I just checked and I think it does come with it's own antivirus analyzer on it's server or something like that. It let's attachments through but it scans them and tell me what kind of file it is.