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Old 04-08-2008, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by SEAGOON View Post
Howdy Folks,

A Fake Rolex Spammer is currently using my email address as his return email address and as a result I am getting thousands of undelivered email messages along with more than a few angry "stop sending spam" messages (when are people going to realize they are useless?)

Anyone know of a way to deal with this? Thanks?

Also, anyone know of an online Rootkit checker?

- Andy
This problem has been out there for some time. The return email address is set by the email program not the operating/network system. So all the spambot (which does not work through the email program) needs to do is pick a random "victim" from the address book and the email is tagged with their email address for the return.

I had the same thing happen with my Mac some years ago when those cretins totally ignored Macs.
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