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RickP -> virus or hacker - help! (6/8/2005 14:23:52)

Hi

A weird thing is happening to me... I'm quite used to emails with suspect attachments (possible viruses) but today I have received several apparently from my own domain name!

e.g. - at "myowndomainname.com" I have only formulated one email address - "rick@myowndomainname.com" - today I have received emails (with suspect zip attachments) from

webmaster@myowndomainname.com
service@myowndomainname.com
admin@myowndomainname.com
etc.

the email properties says they are from these addresses and the IP address (sent from) is my own! I am about to do a virus scan but am just wondering if anyone knows of anything like this happening and if it is most likely a virus, an attempt by someone to send me a virus and masking the addresses or if someone may have actually hacked my hosting account and set up these names temporarily

???

Any help, advice welcome

Thanks

Rick



BobbyDouglas -> RE: virus or hacker - help! (6/8/2005 15:08:31)

It doesn't take a hacker to send an e-mail that looks like the address is from your domain. It does however take one to send e-mail using your mailserver. But if all you notice it is an e-mail from yourself, usually they are just spoofing the address, which is really simple to do.



bobby -> RE: virus or hacker - help! (6/8/2005 16:12:25)

I get those all the time...

I doubt highly that you've been hacked. It's far more likely that a SPAMbot somewhere is spoofing based on likely default accounts for your domain.




RickP -> RE: virus or hacker - help! (6/9/2005 8:28:37)

Thanks

How do I check if it has come from my own mailserver?



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