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Can anyone help me trace a Virus sending loser?

Mar 15, 2004 8:39AM PST

Hi,
I'm running windows Me (boo hoo!)and have Outlook express 6 as my mailbox. I have an internet conection with Ntlworld (my local Cable company) and in the last year have been receiving about 20-30 mails a day from many anonymous email addresses and sometimes from people in my address book (this would suggest that I am infected-but norton finds no infection at all on my pc) which contain the latest versions of Viruses. The one that I receive daily (about 30/day) is the Netsky worm. I ofcourse delete the offending mail straight away. Norton spots it every time and my computer will freeze periodically if I leave the mailbox open because of the loser sending me millions of these viruses per day.

Is there any way that I can trace this losers ISP address or even better who he/she is and where they live so that I may report them.

If you have the book smarts to help me ...please do so!
I will need the instructions as simple and jargon free as possible as I am a functional computer user but not a Dos pro, I have never tried the hacking thing so will need you to be patient with me when writing your instructions.


Thanks in advance,
G.

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Nope - e-mails are spoofed :(
Mar 15, 2004 9:00AM PST

Netsky uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the email addresses it finds when scanning hard drives and mapped drives. It uses spoofed sender email address, sends itself out and the subject, body, and email attachment vary.

Download MailWasher - this way you can SEE the e-mails on your server and delete them from there.

http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php

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Re:Nope - e-mails are spoofed :(
Mar 17, 2004 4:36AM PST

Thanks Marianna. Is there any way to stop emails getting spoofed, like ones that exist in my inbox? Isn't there some program like whois, or some port watcher where I can monitor the ports and trace the loser's ISP, or some such technical stuff? I just get annoyed by it....since posting the original request for help I have received another multitude of emails containing viruses!
Cheers,
Glyn

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Re:Re:Nope - e-mails are spoofed :(
Mar 17, 2004 5:02AM PST
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Marianna, is there any advantage to getting MailWasher Pro instead if Free?
Mar 17, 2004 9:53AM PST

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Yes......
Mar 17, 2004 10:05AM PST

First of all: Unlimited email accounts. You can have as many email accounts as you want to check. Support for POP3, Hotmail & MSN and IMAP.

Here is more: http://www.firetrust.com/products/pro/

I really like the PRO version !