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Originally Posted by dpm
well, my domain name is being used by spammers so I'm getting a heap of email 'returns' from insertnamehereatoniguitars.com etc...
I found some malware last week on a pc I use a lot for email so I figure that's the culprit.Is there anything I can do to stop this crap? What's the procedure?
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One your email addy gets out to spammers you are pretty much well and truely fucked. your probaly going to have to nix your email account and create a new one (So get rid of info@oniguitars and come up with a new one)
THen instead of just sticking your email addy in a webpage- where email harvesting spiders can and will find it look for a way to hide your addy from harvester bots
http://www.addressmunger.com/
Sounds like you may have a zombie email virus (There are viruses that will actully spam email and you wont even know it is happening as it all hapens behind the scenes). Plus there a a lot of distributed spamming viruses out that can be used to spam injection denial of service.injection attacks at different website/hosts...
The returned emails lead me to believe that you have one of these spam mailer viruses on your computer - they basically make up a shitload of usernames and send out emails - check your email logs on your webhost to see if anything is actually getting through...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam