Mail Delivery Systems

[Shatnerfan]

A few weeks ago I posted here about emails from Mail Delivery Systems I was receiving. These related to emails that I had sent out containing viruses. The twist was that I didn't send the mails in the first place. My computer was reformatted and the operating system reloaded. Norton AntiVirus was also added. Now I am receiving M.D.S. emails again. Can anyone help?

[lisaj]

To be honest, this is difficult to diagnose without seeing the message you're receiving. Either post a copy here, or forward it to [email protected]. Then I'll see what I can do to shed some light on it for you.

[Shatnerfan]

Thanks very much. I'll post here as I fear mailing may pass you a virus. I received about ten of these yesterday but, fortunately, none so far today: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [email protected] This message has been rejected because it has an apparently executable attachment User.exe This is a virus prevention measure. If you meant to send this file then please package it up as a zip file and resend it. ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ ------ The body of the message is 122353 characters long; only the first ------ 65536 or so are included here. Return-path: Received: from modem-2323.bear.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.41.19] helo=Jduv) by cmailg4.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1816Zd-0003xO-00 for [email protected]; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:52:01 +0100 From: RobGibby To: [email protected] Subject: A IE 6.0 patch MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=VTPKrg1BEgkT4H4 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:52:01 +0100 patch
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[mac309]

As you're error message reads, if you have sent e-mail to the address listed in the report it had an attachment with an executable file type, a lot if isp's will not permit .EXE files to be sent as a security measure. Next time convert you're file to a .ZIP before sending. If you didn't send e-mail you may still have a virus present, make sure you have the latest virus pattern and perform a scan on you're hard drive. if this problem still exists contact you're isp as they may have closed you're e-mail account. Hope some of this helps.

[DaveRH]

It is possible that you have re-installed something which has a virus in it - although a reformat and reinstall does tend to get rid of 99% of virus's (especially if you are re-installing from legitimate sources). Are some or all of these delivery failure notices being generated by people in your address book? If not then it's possible that you no longer have or never had a virus - but that the virus email has your address as the 'Reply To' (so the error message gets sent to you instead of the true source - this means the source isn't alerted that they are contaminated).

[Shatnerfan]

Actually Dave the vast majority are not in my address book, but are email addresses associated with webpages I have viewed.