Bounce Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Got these in my outlook this morning... two like this from MAILER DAEMON BANNED FILENAME ALERT Your message to: , (there was various email addresses here in both none never heard of any of them before) was blocked by our Spam Firewall. The email you sent with the following subject has NOT BEEN DELIVERED: Subject: [uMIACS# 59356] Info An attachment in that mail was of a file type that the Spam Firewall is set to block. -- and also this one... from staff @ umiacs.umd.edu We have received your request and proper action will be taken as soon as possible. If you can supply us the detail info. in your request like the hostname and/or software name you have problem with, it will help us greatly to resolve your request quickly. If your request is a new account request and have not run newacct yet, please run /usr/local/bin/newacct to request the account installation. If your request is a file restore request and have not run request_restore yet, please run /usr/local/bin/request_restore to request the file restoration. You may find the following available FAQs useful which may already answer or help to answer your request. General UMIACS/CFAR FAQs at General LPDC CLUSTER FAQ at LPDC DCE/DFS FAQ at --- UMIACS/CFAR System Staff --- i removed the links above , does anyone have any idea's why i got them? could i have a virus or something??? i use AVG its not alerted me to anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Is your email from your own website? i.e. [email protected] (for example) or is it an ntlworld/pipex/btinternet.com email? If you're running mail off your own domain then spoofing isn't unusual and it can lead to messages that you didn't even know about getting bounced... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bounce Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 its [email protected] i've never had anything like that before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sufu Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 still spoofing, probably a virus, and most likely on your computer, just do a full system scan and you should be ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sufu Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 oh by the way, dont use AVG, you can get EZ AV for free at the moment, and imho its much better than avg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 [ QUOTE ] and most likely on your computer [/ QUOTE ] Not often the case. If you right-click on the message in Outlook and click Properties, you'll see the email header. This is the route the email has taken and it will show up IP addresses. If yours is in there, then get your AV running. Still, you should be running a combo of AVG and AntiSpyware programs. There's nothing wrong with AVG, but Microsoft are currently doing Windows OneCare Live (beta) which is AV and Antispyware and backup and system clean all in one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomk Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 yup i use avg and find it ok , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bounce Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 i have ran avg and its finding nothing! i have had more emails also, my laptop didn't want to work the other day i had to restore i can assume this is probably why Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 That's the reason I don't think it's coming from your PC. I get these from time to time. Some spammer has your address and is simply sending out mails pretending to be from you. The recipient bounces them and therefore they come back to your Inbox, as it supposedly went from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now