[epub] Re: Virus problems - how they affect the publisher

["Angela Arndt" <angela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,
I've enjoyed reading all of your posts- and have had no reason to post
myself... until now.

I think I'm also having a similar issue. I've been receiving emails under
one of our domain names from admin@. We don't have an admin e-mail address.
Norton catches this e-mail as having a virus, and the attached zip file is
stripped from the e-mail. The text of the e-mail says that my e-mail address
is expiring and I should read the attached file for details (I've obviously
never opened this suspicious file). My co-workers are also getting these
e-mails, and one of them has even noticed that he's getting "bounce-backs"
for e-mails that he never sent. I don't know if this is related to the admin
issue or not, but it seems a bit coincidental.

We've just finished forwarding this info to our ISP to look into it for us,
but my question is this, is this a symptom of someone hijacking our domain
name? Has anyone else had something similar happen to them? Is there
anything we can do about this, or as Lisa suggested, just endure it and wait
for it to pass?

Thanks,
Angela


Angela Arndt
DPIX Events
Digital Capture Magazine
angela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:angela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Phone: 262-821-5300
Fax: 262-821-5400




-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Micklin [mailto:lisa@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:36 AM
To: epub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [epub] Re: Virus problems - how they affect the publisher


>but I don't know how even that can prevent someone using one of my
>email addresses (how can they do that in the first place) sending
>outgoing mail.

Hi Janie, Ross, and All-

Chances are these email are not being sent through your email client
(eudora, outlook, etc.)on your local computer.

More than likely your email address was harvested by a robot, viral or
otherwise, and the messages are being sent via a server other than your
outgoing mail server.

No virus protection is going to prevent this unfortunately.

The only thing to do, is ride it out and let it pass.  It will.

Every time you post your email address on a forum, discussion list, or
even on your own website, it becomes robot bait, it can be harvested,
and in a worse case scenario, email can be sent using your address as
the "from" address.

This is why you are seeing more and more contact forms, vs. emails on
websites, and now that forms can be robotted, you will see more and more
of those little codes you need to type in to a form with a word or a
string of characters. A robot cannot read & reproduce that code.

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news.... hang tight.... it really will
pass.


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