Spammed...by myself!

[taffyjason]

I thought i was a PC geek, but recently i started getting junk e-mail with virus from my own e-mail address, baffled me how they do this, is anyone else getting this?

 

any super geeks know how this is done?

[Ekona]

Spoofed header.

[taffyjason]

but ive done a trace and it comes up as my IP address which really baffles me, ive checked and re checked, there arent any viruses on my pc!

[Ricey]

A quick google reveals that it's a virus that comes from one particular website www.chickspackingmeatintheirslacks.com.

 

Anything to declare?

[taffyjason]

really? lol

[Ricey]

really? lol

 

@*!# the bed

[spursmaddave]

really? lol

 

@*!# the bed

 

www.ithinkitwenttotallyoverhishead.com/niceonericey

[Ekona]

Where's the whoosh parrot when you need him?

[spursmaddave]

[taffyjason]

no it didnt hence the 'lol'

[DoogyRev]

really? lol

 

@*!# the bed

 

http://www.ithinkitwenttotallyoverhishe ... ceonericey

 

[spursmaddave]

no it didnt hence the 'lol'

 

[Tarmac@TarmacSportz]

My personal email is doing the same at the moment

[taffyjason]

i still cant find the cause, spammers are getting smarter, not that opened an email from myself with a russian Cyrillic subject line!

[Ricey]

Sounds like a virus mate. I'd try another virus scan with different software. Try avast

[taffyjason]

well ive tried it in safe mode, ive even used my Laptop to scan the PC, used System Mechanic, Kaspersky rootkit, AVG virus scan and Zonealarm, nothing has shown up, if i have a virus its one hell of a good one! not impossible of course!

[Ekona]

Out of curiosity, how and what did you use to check the IP of an email?

[Stew]

i still cant find the cause, spammers are getting smarter, not that opened an email from myself with a russian Cyrillic subject line!

 

What did it say?

[taffyjason]

i cant type in Cyrillic but suffice to say i didnt click on the linked addy!

[Fodder]

I cant recommend Avast Anti-virus enough in fact it was recommended to em by our "red team", get it installed and schedule a boot time scan.

 

Sender IP can be obtained by looking at the header of the email although headers can be altered too.

[Chris`I]

Probably spoofed headers. Depends if you can get onto your mail server or what your mail provider is like to whether you can check the full headers or not. Its likely that the headers are being spoofed by a spam bot somewhere to make it look like its coming from you.

 

Gmail for one just bins these kinds of mails for me. I get loads that appear to be from me (well my email address, but not my IP) but they go straight to spam box. Gmail also check the IP in the header to the actual server that is sending the mail to work out if they header has been altered. If it does the title of the mail appears in red to show it may be dodgy/phishing/etc

[Ekona]

Out of curiosity, how and what did you use to check the IP of an email?

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[Chris`I]

Out of curiosity, how and what did you use to check the IP of an email?

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Depends on what you are using. In Gmail you can select "Show Original" from the dropdown and it will show the headers and full mail. I forget how to do it in Outlook, open the mail then View > Options. Headers are displayed in a little box.

[Ekona]

Didn't realise the headers showed IPs as well, handy! Cheers mate

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