In one of my yahoo email accounts for the past week or more I've been getting tons of emails from "Postmaster" or "Mailer-Daemon@fe2.bc.edu" with subjects "Undeliverable Mail" or "Message not delivered" and they're messages I never even sent in the first place. Every day now I have about 10 of them in my inbox and they just keep coming. It's starting to really annoy me and I have no idea how to stop them from coming. Anyone know what to do?

How often do you send out mail? Also, they usually say what email address you were supposedly trying to send the email to.

I get these bulk letters quite a bit(You Won 1,000,000),(Lose Weight Faster),etc. The only suggestion would be delete the stuff off of the computer each and every time that you go on the computer.

Originally posted by Dutabi84
How often do you send out mail? Also, they usually say what email address you were supposedly trying to send the email to.

I rarely actually send out emails in this address. The emails it says that weren't delivered I never sent out in the first place and it doesn't say where I "sent" them. I've had this account for about a year or more now and it just started happening now.

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
I rarely actually send out emails in this address. The emails it says that weren't delivered I never sent out in the first place and it doesn't say where I "sent" them. I've had this account for about a year or more now and it just started happening now.

Well, that is quite strange. It's not like you're getting spammed by advertisements. That's a toughy..

Well, at least with advertisements they have an "unsuscribe" link at the end of each email and I always click on that to do that. But this doesn't have anything like that. I'll see if I get more tomorrow...

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
In one of my yahoo email accounts for the past week or more I've been getting tons of emails from "Postmaster" or "Mailer-Daemon@fe2.bc.edu" with subjects "Undeliverable Mail" or "Message not delivered" and they're messages I never even sent in the first place. Every day now I have about 10 of them in my inbox and they just keep coming. It's starting to really annoy me and I have no idea how to stop them from coming. Anyone know what to do?

That actually sounds quite similar to what a couple of viruses were doing sometime late last year. It's possible someone with you on their address book got infected, and is now sending them. Also, if you've opened them, and they DO contain Viri, then your comp could very well be infected (Some Viri don't even need to have you open an attachment anymore).

Or, it could just be some spammer who has gone off the deep end. You just can't tell these days.

I got more today. Here's a copy of what one of these emails looks like:


Subject: Undeliverable mail: Request
From: MAILER-DAEMON@fe3.bc.edu Add to Address Book
To: krisloueng@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:35:48 -0400




Failed to deliver to ''
Virus(es) found.
description9.pif is infected with W32/Netsky.t@MM
Viruses: 1
Trojans: 0
Jokes: 0
Tests: 0





Message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; fe3.bc.edu

Original-Recipient: rfc822;<>
Final-Recipient: system;<>
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0

Received: from ecsn463.bc.edu ([136.167.2.252] verified)
by fe3.bc.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8)
with ESMTP-TLS id 51013646 for service@mail.bc.edu; Wed, 28 Apr 2004
13:35:48 -0400
Received: from ecsn463.bc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by ecsn463.bc.edu (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i3SHaHZC015738
for <service@mail.bc.edu>; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:36:17 -0400
Received: (from root@localhost)
by ecsn463.bc.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with X.500 id i3SHa6I9015613
for service@mail.bc.edu; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:36:06 -0400
Received: from bc.edu (ool-18bc4695.dyn.optonline.net [24.188.70.149])
by ecsn463.bc.edu (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i3SHZqZC015476
for <studentservices@bc.edu>; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:35:52 -0400
Message-Id: <200404281735.i3SHZqZC015476@ecsn463.bc.edu>
From: krisloueng@yahoo.com
To: studentservices@bc.edu
Subject: Request
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:35:46 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0016----=_NextPart_000_0016"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

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Another one says I sent something to someone at abc.com! I have no idea what to do. If this is a virus, I don't know how to get rid of it either. Contact someone at yahoo? This is driving me nuts!

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
I got more today. Here's a copy of what one of these emails looks like:


Subject: Undeliverable mail: Request
From: MAILER-DAEMON@fe3.bc.edu Add to Address Book
To: krisloueng@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:35:48 -0400




Failed to deliver to ''
Virus(es) found.
description9.pif is infected with W32/Netsky.t@MM
Viruses: 1
Trojans: 0
Jokes: 0
Tests: 0





Message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; fe3.bc.edu

Original-Recipient: rfc822;<>
Final-Recipient: system;<>
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0

Received: from ecsn463.bc.edu ([136.167.2.252] verified)
by fe3.bc.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8)
with ESMTP-TLS id 51013646 for service@mail.bc.edu; Wed, 28 Apr 2004
13:35:48 -0400
Received: from ecsn463.bc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by ecsn463.bc.edu (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i3SHaHZC015738
for <service@mail.bc.edu>; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:36:17 -0400
Received: (from root@localhost)
by ecsn463.bc.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with X.500 id i3SHa6I9015613
for service@mail.bc.edu; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:36:06 -0400
Received: from bc.edu (ool-18bc4695.dyn.optonline.net [24.188.70.149])
by ecsn463.bc.edu (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i3SHZqZC015476
for <studentservices@bc.edu>; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:35:52 -0400
Message-Id: <200404281735.i3SHZqZC015476@ecsn463.bc.edu>
From: krisloueng@yahoo.com
To: studentservices@bc.edu
Subject: Request
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:35:46 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0016----=_NextPart_000_0016"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Another one says I sent something to someone at abc.com! I have no idea what to do. If this is a virus, I don't know how to get rid of it either. Contact someone at yahoo? This is driving me nuts!

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

This is an absolutely free virus scanner download. I would suggest you download and use it immediately!

That is a virus! I had that last year with AOL; entered a chat room and someone/somehow got a hold of my info and sent me all kinds of trash to my inbox. I was going crazy with the 'Fatal Error' msgs and 'Undeliverable'. It took a whole week to clear it up; glad that I didn't lost any data. Thet can be a pain in the a$$:mad:

Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
That is a virus! I had that last year with AOL; entered a chat room and someone/somehow got a hold of my info and sent me all kinds of trash to my inbox. I was going crazy with the 'Fatal Error' msgs and 'Undeliverable'. It took a whole week to clear it up; glad that I didn't lost any data. Thet can be a pain in the a$$:mad:

EEK! I just downloaded that free anti-virus thing and it doesn't work on my computer! Any other options?? I've never had a virus before, so I don't know what to do.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.netsky.t@mm.html

Scroll to where you see the words "Removal Instructions" Follow the instructions on that page Word. For. Beeping. Word.

The Moral of the Story: Don't Open E-Mails with Attachments Unless you are 100% sure that the attachment is from a trusted source, and even then, scan it if at all possible to be sure.

Quick Sidenote, if you care: The two most common filesizes for e-mails with virus attachments are 144KB and 156KB. I, myself, would automatically delete, without even ATTEMPTING to Open (Or Auto-Preview, or Anything), ANY message with those filesizes.

Thanks, I'll try that. Also, for the future, I don't even know how to scan emails.

I downloaded "FxNetsky.exe" and that didn't work. All the stuff on that page means nothing to me, or I have no idea what it means. My computer is a Mac, if that has anything to do with this. I'm clueless when it comes to stuff like this. I wish I know what I was doing. :confused:

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
I downloaded "FxNetsky.exe" and that didn't work. All the stuff on that page means nothing to me, or I have no idea what it means. My computer is a Mac, if that has anything to do with this. I'm clueless when it comes to stuff like this. I wish I know what I was doing. :confused:

Have you tried Norton Antivirus or Symantec?? My computer has EZ antivirus and last nite while downloading a file it detected a trojan virus. I'm glad it did!

OOOOh...It's a Mac, is it? (Stupid, Stupid me...I shoulda remembered to ask the OS first)

That changes everything.

You see, it was assumed you had a Windows machine (At least by me).

Netsky is incapable of doing anything on a Mac, as the hole Netsky exploits dosen't even exist on Macs, to the best of my knowledge. In fact, 98% of Viruses out there (at least as far as the explotative ones and/or the worms) can't affect Macs.

Score one for the Apple..

Originally posted by Seth Thrasher
OOOOh...It's a Mac, is it? (Stupid, Stupid me...I shoulda remembered to ask the OS first)

That changes everything.

You see, it was assumed you had a Windows machine (At least by me).

Netsky is incapable of doing anything on a Mac, as the hole Netsky exploits dosen't even exist on Macs, to the best of my knowledge. In fact, 98% of Viruses out there (at least as far as the explotative ones and/or the worms) can't affect Macs.

Score one for the Apple..


OK, so what you're saying is it isn't a virus? Or at least a 2% chance there is. Virus or not, I still need to figure out how to prevent these emails from coming. *sigh* I'll try some more stuff and look around.

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
OK, so what you're saying is it isn't a virus? Or at least a 2% chance there is. Virus or not, I still need to figure out how to prevent these emails from coming. *sigh* I'll try some more stuff and look around.

You can filter your emails so that you only receive the ones in your address book to your inbox, which is what I did, that way all the junk goes to my junkmail box :rolleyes:

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
OK, so what you're saying is it isn't a virus? Or at least a 2% chance there is. Virus or not, I still need to figure out how to prevent these emails from coming. *sigh* I'll try some more stuff and look around.

I'm saying it IS a virus, but you don't have to worry about it. You have a Mac, and the virus dosen't affect Macs.

As for filtering it out, the easiest way would just be to set whatever e-mail service/program you use to delete messages with attachments over, say, 125 Kilobytes (KB). Most viruses are somewhere OVER this line, and unless you're sending really large files, most attachments are Under this size (And anything over could always be sent some other way)

As for Spam, well...If I knew a *Great* way to filter ALL the junk out, without you losing important info from people not necessarily in your Address Book, I'd be worth a lot more money.

Originally posted by Seth Thrasher
I'm saying it IS a virus, but you don't have to worry about it. You have a Mac, and the virus dosen't affect Macs.

As for filtering it out, the easiest way would just be to set whatever e-mail service/program you use to delete messages with attachments over, say, 125 Kilobytes (KB). Most viruses are somewhere OVER this line, and unless you're sending really large files, most attachments are Under this size (And anything over could always be sent some other way)

As for Spam, well...If I knew a *Great* way to filter ALL the junk out, without you losing important info from people not necessarily in your Address Book, I'd be worth a lot more money.

I seriously have no idea how to do any of that- the filtering out part. The only way I delete messages is check the box next to it and click "Delete". My account is a yahoo one. I feel so stupid, because I don't know any of this stuff. Thanks for helping me out and I'll check out my account and see what it it has.

I searched around at my account and I FOUND HOW TO FILTER EMAILS!! Hooray and I filtered the ones I don't want! You learn something new everyday. I hope this helps now. I'm so proud of myself and thanks to those who helped me out! :)

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
I seriously have no idea how to do any of that- the filtering out part. The only way I delete messages is check the box next to it and click "Delete". My account is a yahoo one. I feel so stupid, because I don't know any of this stuff. Thanks for helping me out and I'll check out my account and see what it it has.

TheHappyBurgerMeister:

I get those Virus/E-mail messages frequently in my BULK message folder in my Yahoo mail. Just keep emptying it. And whatever you do, don't open them, because they are viruses. My virus scanner can't detect them for some dumb reason, But Yahoo Mail won't let you open them up anyway if it's a virus.

I don't know what else I can suggest. :(

Jenya, I just figured out how to filter them, so thanks anyway. I get TONS of junk emails in my bulk all the time, but that doesn't bother me, but the main reason this was bothering me is becaue they came in my regular inbox.

That was happening to me a lot a few months ago but it stopped. I think I might have had a virus. When I ran my virus program I had no more problem.:happyface