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

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Pastor Andy Webb
Providence PCA, Fayetteville, NC
BUILDING OLD SCHOOL CHURCHES
"Providence is a Christian's diary, but not his Bible. Sometimes a bad cause prevails and gets ground; but it is not to be liked because it prevails. We must not think the better of what is sinful, because it is successful. This is no rule for our actions to be directed by." - Thomas Watson

I don't know how to fix it NOW, but the way to prevent it in the future is to not make your email address visible or via link on any website. For example, instead of johndoe@johndoe.com, you may just put john doe AT john doe dot com. That will at least shield you from the Spambots. On my blog, I use a contact form for people to contact me; that way I don't have give my email address.

Sorry if this is not at all germane to your problem.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
Member of TRBC. My Blog
The Puritan Pub (Team Blog)
Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

Blow up your computer with cardboard toilet paper rolls filled with firework gunpower and a short fuse. You'll never have to look at those emails again.

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"All of us stumble in many ways, but if anyone is never at fault in what he says, then he is mature, able to control his whole body."(James 3:2)

Beyond shutting down that email addy and starting another, the only thing I can think of for an immediate fix is to locate a constant in the spam-mail and create a filter to send those immediately to Trash.

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Anne Ivy
Christ Chapel Bible Church
Fort Worth, Texas

Married to Don, mother of six, grandmother to an ever-increasing brood.

The Ivy Vine (my blog)

'Tis as I feared.

Ok, anyone got an online checker for Rootkits? I fear one of my computers has become a bot.

I haven't tried this, but it looks like it may work.

|MG| Trend Micro RUBotted Beta

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R.Vic Bottomly
Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA

Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

BTW, does this mean that I won't be getting that Rolex I bought?

If you're looking for a root kit checker, use Norton Anti-virus. While I do not commonly recommend using Norton, it is very good for root kit detection. The next best one is BitDefender; it's better in basically every area except root kits.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

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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Soli Deo Gloria

John Schultz
Member, Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Germantown, TN

"The reason why we worship God in a slight way is because we do not see God in His glory"
Jeremiah Burroughs

Sounds like you may have a Trojan Horse on your computer.

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John J.
Member Christ Prebyterian Church (OPC)
Salt Lake City, Utah
www.christpres.net

That's one sturdy Computer, if a horse standing on it doesn't crush it.

I do something similar. I own my own domain, so anything before the @ comes to me, and a lot of that is spam. So I create "message rules" in Outlook Express for email addressed specifically to me to be delivered to a special inbox, and I disregard the main inbox most of the time.

Another approach is used by Earthlink, where nobody can contact you until you approve the sender's email address. A pain to set up, but it keeps out the spam.

Good luck. This is a pain, for sure.

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HaigLaw, ruling elder
Grace PCA, Shreveport, LA
http://www.xanga.com/HaigLaw

It may not have anything to do with his computer. Someone may have picked his email, along with 1,000 others in a spam email, to use as a phony return address.

A good email client to use to filter spam and junk email (such as all of the reply emails) is Mozilla Thunderbird. The filter on that thing is by far the best of any other program.

You be trippin!

I THINK (not totally sure) that mac.com accounts since it is a private service can be notified and they can somehow keep out a "grabbed account" if reported.

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