Networks Email anomaly

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  1. Digitalblueshift

    Digitalblueshift What's a Dremel?

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    I thinks someone with my email in their addressbook is spoofing mine as the reply address and bouncing emails off of an (on.ca) domain. I tried tracing and obtaining an admin address so I can either: A, get more information or; B, give them some info so that the proper sender.

    The email is a virus propagation email containg the W32/Netsky virus...

    The address is a hotmail address...
     
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    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.netsky@mm.removal.tool.html
     
  3. Digitalblueshift

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    I didnt/dont have it...

    I am pretty sure a friend of mine has it, and he is away for the weekend.

    I got a bounce from a different server, and it contained the headers that they recieved, and it had a certain domain that corresponds to a friend of mine who's ISP is in that domain. When he is in I will get him to check, if not...
     
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    hmm, I've been getting a load of emails with netsky in them lately, I'll try the fix but its proabably not me with it as my antivirus picks it up anyway.

    edit:: ran the fix and didn't find anything :thumb:
     
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