Email virus from myself!?!?! (1 Viewer)

[Rogue]

Ok, i'm sure this will turn out to be a trick of some sort but anyways.

I have a webspace which I mainly use for storage or occasionally for uploading big files, lets call it 'www.dave.com', I use the domain's email as my personal address. But I just got an email from info@dave.com telling me that my email a/c is suspended with a .zip attachment. It got picked up by my email scanner and disabled - plus i didn't open the attchment anyways.

My real worry is, how is the virus mailing from my own domain, with an name that doesn't exist - info@... - the only email names i've created are my own one and an admin@...

any ideas web-peeps?

 

[Johnnyc]

Sounds well suss. You get onto the peeps who are hosting your domain?

 

[Rogue]

yers, but i think it's nothing to do with them, I rang them and they said it's a worm in my machine. My email is setup to automatically forward a copy to my hotmail address and this email didn't get forwarded so i can only assume that it didn't go through their servers and was generated within thunderbird on my pc.

 

[Rogue]

update:

The email scanner said it was a worm called W32.Mytob.EB@mm but the symantec fix program said that worm was not on my machine...odd.

 

[old]

Did you check the header to see if it actually came from your machine?

 

[Rogue]

Did you check the header to see if it actually came from your machine?

no, not sure what i'm looking for.

I'm looking at the page source for the email and i've checked the ip address which is different from mine but apart from that i dunno what i'm looking for...

 

[old]

Aye. Probly not from you but just claims to be from your email address.
Annoying when that happens. Especially the several hundred replies from emails that can't be delivered.
I'd say delete and ignore.

 

[Rogue]

done and done.

ta.