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weird email-need help
Hey all,
I am getting this weird email in my yahoo account. The following is the subject and content
From: "Internet Email Storage Service" <[email protected]>
To: "Network User" <[email protected]>
Subject: Error Announcement
This is the qmail program
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses:
Undeliverable mail to [email protected]
Message follows:
..............but theres no message after this.............the size of the mail is around 140kb.........no attachments also.
Is this some kind of spam or virus(becaus of the size - 140kb) or someone is sending mail using my id ( i am not sure about this since my address is not in the header)
Does anyone have any idea/thoughts about this.....
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It's an automated message
It usually includes either a copy of the message you sent, a warning that it will try again for XX hours or it will just warn of the error.
Assuming you didn't send the e-mail and no-ones used you account then it could be a spammer using your address as the reply-to so that the spammer doesn't get any e-mails sent back to him.
Just ignore the message.
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Can't be a virus showtime if theres no attachement.
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but how come its showing a size of 140kb, but nothing in it
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It looks like someone has sent a bouncing email.
it's an email that will send to you, and as soon as you open it, it will bounce back to the sender and tell him details about you.
Its a common little trick to gain information, about someone.
For instance if i was planning on hacking into a website so i could deface it like a scriptkiddie.
I would send this type of email to the email addresse located on the page.
Once the unsuspecting person opens the email, it bounces back sending there ISP, Password etc
I think that's right not sure.
I just remember reading about it somewere.
So if i am wrong please correct me.
Anyhow cheers
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Originally posted here by cheyenne1212
Can't be a virus showtime if theres no attachement.
It can't? Maybe its being blocked at the server side? I've been hit by a lot of e-mails similar to the one he described, and they all appear to have forged e-mail headers, from [email protected].
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Your right,
I wasnt' thinking. The servers probably catching it, and not letting it through.
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hehehe computers emailing computers come on hevy dutty is some times smaller in the eyes of the bigger its more likly a file that hase been passed from on person and changed if its an onld email and your getting it over and over agein maybe some one made you a memmber of smaping weekly lmao or you could jut typalpo o q delta cross and reply that to the person robot or not might as well crash it right a file that big has to have some thing you in it lmao i think you should try and maybe unlayor that email bye useing enix have fun hehe
hmm but then agein im kinda drunk i think you just have a normal email poset f as a sticky note
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Originally posted here by introgrammer
hehehe computers emailing computers come on hevy dutty is some times smaller in the eyes of the bigger its more likly a file that hase been passed from on person and changed if its an onld email and your getting it over and over agein maybe some one made you a memmber of smaping weekly lmao or you could jut typalpo o q delta cross and reply that to the person robot or not might as well crash it right a file that big has to have some thing you in it lmao i think you should try and maybe unlayor that email bye useing enix have fun hehe
hmm but then agein im kinda drunk i think you just have a normal email poset f as a sticky note
Thats got to be the funniest crap I've heard all week. What an entrance!
:rofl:
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Hi guys,
Hey introgrammer...who deals for you?...I think that we might be able to do some business? :D
Showtime.....................how are you getting on with Ray Bradbury?........also, you must try Fred Hoyle "The Cloud"....................ok English Lit. bit set to "off" :)
Now to the real question?.....is it on your machine our your ISP/E-mail server?
Do you download messages, or just do it online?
You must get your AV updated, get SpyBot Search & Destroy. SwatIT, AdAware(as already suggested) update and run them.....................this should clear your machine?
Please keep me informed, I am interested in this one :)
Cheers
Johnno
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I have been getting quite a few of these myself; however, I do not believe it to be anything serious.
Worms like Sobig send out emails with spoofed headers/sources (obtained from the infected computers address book) and then tries to send the email to someone else in the address book with the spoofed source. The third party that was in the address book that was used as the spoofed source, had no involvement with the message whatsoever.
What you are seeing is the automated response from the mail server at the destination of the email from the infected machine. Since the infected machine used a spoofed header/source address (of your box/account), the mailer sends the YOU the message saying that the mail couldn't be delivered. In more civil days on the internet, this was a courtesy to let you know there was some kind of an issue to look into; however, given the proliferation of spoofed mails from spammers and worms, they are rapidly becoming a nuisance.
So short of the story, you probably aren't infected and can safely ignore the messages.
/nebulus
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hey nihil.... I don;t think I understand your question
"Now to the real question?.....is it on your machine our your ISP/E-mail server? "
I was getting this mail in my yahoo account.....if that helps :-)
I have another question for you guys.......if my comp is infected, what are the chances it affects my web based yahoo account and the addresses in that account.........
Thanks a lot for the replies
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Hi Oxygen,
please pardon the bad manners, just a bit of humour relating to other posters.
You answered my question when you said "web-based"...that means you open it on their server. If you are safe and sound, you are OK, the problem will be theirs.
Other mail accounts download to your hard drive before you can open them. If you open one of those and it is a nasty, you are history mate.
Your address book will be on their machine, and as vulnerable as their system is.
Sorry for the confusion
Cheers
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I'm not as think as you drunk I am !!
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Showtime8000 had the correct answer. That is a virus that is one of the ways it comes in. Check out his link to symantec for a removal tool to test if you have the virus
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Am still laughing at the points some people have, and will stick with some old time names here like nebulus200 at least he earned the points. No attachment no virus LOL. Anyway just check out mimail or sobig virus doings and all the false mail headers and such, try google search mimail sobig funny how google works ya actually can find stuff there. Kinda a pointless thread really and a few well post that make me laugh am off to the humor thread now LOL :)
OOPS YAHOO mail what did you expect for free?
