I'm receiving strange email. Is it because I have posted in this newsgroup?

I have been getting email for different addresses all saying the same thing,
plus they have an attachment with them that I do not open.

This is an example of what one says:
***beginning***
"Hi.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message to one or more destinations.



Undeliverable message to "
***ending***

Is anyone else getting messages like this?
I have ran all kinds of virus scans and they say my PC is clean. Any feed
back would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

It's a virus. I've been getting hundreds (I'm not kidding) of these per day
for the past few weeks. Email was most probably collected on usenet.

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

I have too. Right after I posted a message to this newsgroup. Fortunately
the attachments are being deleted by my provider.

"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in message
...
It's a virus. I've been getting hundreds (I'm not kidding) of these per
day
for the past few weeks. Email was most probably collected on usenet.

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

I too have been getting those "microsoft latest security patch" and
"couldn't be delivered" emails. I don't open the attachments either but they
all have .exe on them and I run a Mac, so they wouldn't work on my computer
anyway. I've been getting 20 or so of these emails every day for about two
weeks now! I finally created a "rule" to delete these little puppies as soon
as the arrive because I got so tired of my inbox being flooded with them.
Very annoying!

Surgicalrn wrote:
I too have been getting those "microsoft latest security patch" and
"couldn't be delivered" emails. I don't open the attachments either
but they all have .exe on them and I run a Mac, so they wouldn't work
on my computer anyway. I've been getting 20 or so of these emails
every day for about two weeks now! I finally created a "rule" to
delete these little puppies as soon as the arrive because I got so
tired of my inbox being flooded with them. Very annoying!


Try this and you won't need to download them.You can set up filters, delete
or bounce them straight from your ISP, that goes for any mail you don't want
to see. You can also set up a "friends list" for mail you do want and keep
it seperate from the list so you don't accidentally delete something
important. I have been using it for months now, one click and they are all
gone

http://www.mailwasher.net/

I've deleted abot 3000 of these thing over the past few weeks, and that is a
coservative estimate, it is probably more.

--
Don`t Worry, Be Happy

Sandy
--

E-Mail:-
Website:- http://www.ftscotland.co.uk
IRC:- Sandyb in #rabble uk3.arcnet.vapor.com Port:6667
#Rabble Channel Website:- http://www.ftscotland.co.uk/rabbled
ICQ : 41266150

Always embed "removethis" or "NoSpam" or something similar in your email.

People seriously trying to email you will know to remove it


"Jimmy" wrote in message
. net...
I have been getting email for different addresses all saying the same
thing,
plus they have an attachment with them that I do not open.

This is an example of what one says:
***beginning***
"Hi.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message to one or more
destinations.



Undeliverable message to "
***ending***

Is anyone else getting messages like this?
I have ran all kinds of virus scans and they say my PC is clean. Any feed
back would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

Okay- I'm assuming that you quickly scanned my email and missed one
important detail... I run a Mac... it won't deal with .exe files. That's a
Windows exclusive. Mac deals with .bin or .hex files and without a windows
emulator (which I don't intend to deal with as the only programs that ever
crash on my Mac are Microsoft products so why deal with an inferior
product?) it won't work with .exe file extensions.
Enough about this guys... It's a virus/worm and you don't want to deal with
it so don't open the attachments or run the .exe file. Let's get back to the
fish, ok???

" ...
I have been getting email for different addresses all saying the same
thing,
plus they have an attachment with them that I do not open.

This is an example of what one says:
***beginning***
"Hi.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message to one or more
destinations.

It's worth forking out the money for Norton anti-virus these days....or a
similar quality pc protection programme. I've had hundreds of these
including Swen which issues fake microsoft security updates. I have Norton
locking these emails in the background so that they can be deleted later on.

Just an aside--you should consider modifying the information
your newsreader sends about you. There are lots of evil people
out there who harvest addresses from all Usenet groups by
simply collecting the information in headers.

Usually people add "nospam" or "removethis" or use the format
"me AT domain.com".

-coelacanth

"Jimmy" wrote in message
. net...
I have been getting email for different addresses all saying the same
thing,
plus they have an attachment with them that I do not open.

This is an example of what one says:
***beginning***
"Hi.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message to one or more
destinations.



Undeliverable message to "
***ending***

Is anyone else getting messages like this?
I have ran all kinds of virus scans and they say my PC is clean. Any feed
back would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 13:46:26 +0000, Jimmy wrote:

I have been getting email for different addresses all saying the same
thing, plus they have an attachment with them that I do not open.

This is an example of what one says:
***beginning***
"Hi.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message to one or more
destinations.



Undeliverable message to " ***ending***

Is anyone else getting messages like this? I have ran all kinds of virus
scans and they say my PC is clean. Any feed back would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim


The lesson here is dont post using a real address!! Spamers will filter
out( nospam etc)