[BNM] Email hijacking

[Guy Tierney]

Is there not a certificate you can set up on your domain that would prevent
anyone using this address as a sender address unless it matched the IP
numbers you list in the certificate?

Sorry can't remember what it was called - I don't use it as it sounded like
the type of thing I would forget should I change ISP, therefore IP, and not
understand why my mail wouldn't send :)

gt

on 2/10/06 9:24 am, Jay Gooby at jay at gooby.org wrote:

> On 10/2/06, Jeff Horne <jaybeeter at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I need a bit of email techie help if you're willing.  Over the last week the
>> amount of emails in my inbox has increased about 10 fold and most of them
>> are saying "undeliverable" or things like that.
> 
> The general reason for these kind of messages is that when people spam
> others, they fake the From: address - a lot of email MTUs just blindly
> reply back to the from address if the To: address doesn't exist/has a
> full mailbox, etc, etc, regardless.
> 
> It rarely means your machine/email account has been compromised - if
> anything it's generally a sign that someone you know has, because your
> address appears in the their address book, and the spamming viruses go
> through these and send mail to everyone using other people's details.
> 
> If the undeliverable mails don't look like they've been used to try
> and forward a virus (check for dodgy attachments) and they're just
> regular spam, then its just one of those things - I've got some mail
> addresses that have been in existence for 10 or 11 years and these
> seem to go through phases of being used as fake From: senders.
> 
> It wouldn't hurt to run a virus checker and/or spyware (use ad aware
> and spybot search and destroy) on your PC though...
> 
> Hope this helps.