Posted on 02/12/2010 5:42:43 AM PST by RaceBannon
HELP! I AM LOGGED ON and I cant find the source of random e-mails that I am supposed to be sending. The message I keep getting is:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
179586@corp.ds.fedex.com
it is from pastmaster@corp.ds.fedex.com
downloading it now
Ooops, my bad. Also, from some of the other comments, looks like the OP might not even have a virus — it might just be someone spoofing his email address.
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First go download Windows Security Essentials from Microsoft here: http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
It’s free and very effective anti-virus software that works hand-in-hand with your Windows Defender. Run it and see if you have an infection. If you didn’t open the file, then this is just another virus laden e-mail trying to get you to open a file.
If your anti-virus doesn’t detect any virus, then relax and just make sure your AV program remains up to date.
I get some of these “failure to deliver” messages and they are always unrelated to anything I have done.
I knew that before snopes did
I had that and finally found the way to get rid of it from one of the geek sites. It had something to do with Yahoo’s toolbar if I recall correctly.
Anyway, for those of you who need free stuff to protect your computers here is CNET’s site
http://download.cnet.com/windows/?tag=hdr;snav
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Free)
Spybot S&D (Free)
AdAware(Free)
These are must have utilities. Just run a scan with each and you will know whether or not your system is clean. I suggest running them in the order I listed them above.
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One thing I love about FreeReublic is that ya’ll are friends and when someone asks for help so many people respond.
When I was on dial-up about 10 years ago, I noticed that my email dialing and sending something out.
I wasn’t sending anything. The action happened so quickly that I couldn’t tell what was being sent. The email that was ‘sent’ was deleted afterward.
I finally unplugged the phone line and had the email send a copy to ‘save’ file.
The resulting file was compilation of text. Much of the text was from unknown stuff, unknown people. Some was from various text files on my computer. It was all in one text file that apparently ‘compiled’ stuff from various computers, then emailed the ‘compilation’ to the next computers, and then erased itself.
I tried several ‘virus’ programs (this is about year 2000) and none worked. The virus continued trying to send out the email.
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I got the virus by opening an email. It was apparently attached and automatically activated, and locked itself onto the computer.
I finally ended up reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything.
I’m impressed!
I loaded SE from your link. Thanks again! AVG used to slow down my browser some, and this one does not. It is also very easy to use.
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I had the same problem until I found this.
Follow these instructions to the letter.
You are infected with what is termed a, “WORM”.
Don’t be afraid of the re-settings, I haven’t had the problem sense making these changes.
Spammers will sometimes use an arbitrary address from their lists as the “From” addresses on their emails. You may well not be sending it from your machine - they may be sending it from their machine with your return address - it is easy for them to do and there is very little that you can do about it.
i don’t think you have anything wrong.
It sounds as if somebody is spoofing your email address.
Take a look at the full header of the bogus email. It will generate a number that looks something like this:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx —where the ‘x’ represents numbers.
Do a google search (or whatever your search engine you prefer) on that number.
You’re looking for a site that gives you Reverse DNS lookup.
Plug those numbers into it (with the periods separating them).
It should tell you the source of the email.
If it’s your ISP, then you have a problem.
If it’s anyone else, don’t worry about it.
wake up.
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