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Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 11:48:58 AM

Zensee

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Wow. This is a first for me. I've had plenty of spam from fictitious senders like Andreas Pincushion and Farnsley Egregious, but I have never received spam sent to my Yahoo address FROM my yahoo account.

I am such a nuisance.

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 12:26:22 PM

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Forgive my ignorance: how was this ever managed?

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 12:29:44 PM

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That's kind of what I'd like to know - since I am certain I didn't send it. Unless I am a sleep-spammer.

Anyone else had this new annoyance?

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 12:58:33 PM

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uh oh...

It sounds like one of those programs that sends something to everyone in your address book, and then to everyone in the other peoples' address book, etc.

I'd do a clean sweep of my computer were I you.

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 1:25:24 PM

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Good point, though no one else on my list has reported receiving spam from me...yet. Still no harm in a good scan.

Thanks.

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 1:27:25 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx

uh oh...

It sounds like one of those programs that sends something to everyone in your address book, and then to everyone in the other peoples' address book, etc.

More likely, his Yahoo email address was harvested by a spammer and they are using it to forge the From: line in outgoing spam. If he looks at the headers of that spam it's almost certainly coming from somewhere than Yahoo.

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 2:46:12 PM

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You know what they say...

If you can't handle the spam....

Stop looking at porn

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 2:54:46 PM

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It's called "spoofing." http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Email-Spoofing.html

Probably not a huge issue, just an irritating one.

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 5:10:46 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx

uh oh...

It sounds like one of those programs that sends something to everyone in your address book, and then to everyone in the other peoples' address book, etc.

I'd do a clean sweep of my computer were I you.

Hate to say it, that's what first crossed my mind. Hope I'm wrong.

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RE: Auto-spam - 2/20/2008 5:15:00 PM

Zensee

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Yeah, I'm clean. And no one else on my list got hit.

Porn? I don't use my main yahoo addy for porn. I have special slutting addresses for that, precisely to keep the spam at bay.

Thanks for everyone's help.

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