Looks Like a Virus??

[ANFPS26]

I keep getting the following from people I never heard of and I think it's a virus:
From: <MAILER-DAEMON@offerbox>
To: <jewelry@jewelry.com>
Subject: failure notice
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2002 10:19 AM

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at offerbox.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

This is a MAILER-DAEMON failure and says I sent 540 emails to jewelry.com. I scanned for viruses with the latest
McAfee and Pest Patrol, but they found nothing. &quot;A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.....&quot;

 

[dakota81]

If you post your e-mail address here I can make you receive another 540 e-mails of the very same nature. =)

Open up your e-mail message file in a text editor and it will tell you what domain name the original e-mail was sent from. That's where I would start.

 

[jexster]

It sounds like there is a problem with your mail client contact them and see if you can clear it out.Recently my old (just switched to cable)isp swithed over there systema nd i was reciving thousands of the same e-mails so i had to go into my maine mail server and clean them all out.

 

[JLSigman]

Hmmmm... almost sounds like KLEZ... double-check that your McAfee knows about the KLEZ virus. Jennifer Sigman
Code-borrower extraordinaire
&quot;They call us public servants for a reason...&quot;

 

[FatesWebb]

The klez virus lies about who sent it, that is why you are getting this because klez knows your email address and is saying it came from you you do not have klez FatesWebb

if you do what I suggested it is not my fault...

 

[ANFPS26]

Well, I sent a copy of the problem to jewelry.com and they replied with the following:
Jewelry.com is experiencing technical difficulties with our e-mail lists at this time. We deeply regret any inconvenience you may have been put to because of this mechanical malfunction. Please be assured that there is no virus infection involved nor are your e-mail addresses being utilized to send out SPAM e-mails.

We are investigating this problem an will have an answer in fairly short order.

Many Thanks,

Jewelry.com
So, I guess I can forget about it being a virus and ignore it. Thanks to all who responded. I don't know how I got on jewelry.com's list anyway. I don't buy jewelry!! &quot;A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.....&quot;

 

[dakota81]

My point a while ago was you don't even need the involvement of a virus to have this happen to you. In e-mail clients, the users e-mail address and login information DO NOT have to match up. Thus someone could put your e-mail address in as their return, and use an address listing of fake names to quickly flood your inbox with hundreds of e-mails like the ones you are receiving.

So this could have been initiated by some loser out there, or it could be a virus that simply automated this task, or it could be yet something else. To find out where the e-mails first originated, you'll have to open up the mail file in a text editor and view the e-mail header. Note - these files are often too big for notepad, wordpad, and dos edit to handle.