Weird email.

Lum

I wouldn't read the whole link. Seriously. Just that one example I pointed out.

It's a page from the manual for a particularly infamous mail server product. In paper form that manual is about 2 inches thick. I've been a techie of some form since my childhood and Sendmail still gives me the fear.

bluffer

superjaggybunnet wrote: »

Just delete it and move on.

It is not worth wasting time or energy over.

yup. at times i have received emails from me! delete, delete, delete

heidthebaw

To Bluffer.

This is my first post ever and I may be doing this wrong. Please bear with me. I am receiving emails from my own username and there is no way I know of to get rid of them other than to erase them or put them in to spam. This does not get rid of the problem as I get one of these (from the same source) almost every day. I have been able to trace the sender, who is a Canadian pharmacy selling Viagra etc. Is there any way I can stop this.

My one main concern is that I read somewhere that if this happens to you it means that your computer has been hacked and that the perpetrator has free access to your computer details.

Can you, or anyone else, help please.:footie::footie:

choille

Block the sender by clicking on it (in tools I think).

I've been doing that since I raised this point & it has slowed the rubbish. The do come in on a different address, but just block ones you don't want & delete them.

Lum

heidthebaw wrote: »

My one main concern is that I read somewhere that if this happens to you it means that your computer has been hacked and that the perpetrator has free access to your computer details.

That's rubbish.

Well, it's possible I guess, but it's much much easier to just use forged headers to send an email that appears to be from yourself, no need to hack anything. All you need is an email address.

kippen_noedel

DO NOT OPEN EMAILS FROM PEOPLE OR ADDRESSES YOU DONT KNOW.

all you are doing is confirming it is a live account. thereby telling the spam masters you open unsolicited mail.

Lum

A little alarmist there, and also wrong, sorry.

There used to be a trick they could do where the emails contained images that were loaded from an external website. That site could then be used to track if the email had been opened, but modern email clients don't load the external images any more, so unless you're running Windows XP prior to Service Pack 2 (and if you are, you deserve a lot worse than a bit of spam) you'll be fine.

Full explanation here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/843018

What you don't want to do is reply to the message, download the images, save or run any attachments it has, and definitely don't believe that the nice Nigerian dude wants to give you a few million pounds if you'll just lend him £100