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Mail Delivery Message, Virus??

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

I just received a second message that my email had sent an udeliverable message. Neither I or my sent file show these messages. The undeliver reason was too many messages being received so I assume that my computer is somehow apart of a denial of service attack. Is there something I can do or should have done to stop my computer being involved? Avast and malwarebytes show no problems.

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Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
5 years ago
I'm not an expert but if you're not seeing spam messages in your "sent" folder and your AV shows nothing, you're probably okay.

Likely just a spammer using your email address in the "From:" field instead of their own.

That way their undeliverable spam bounces back to you instead of them. (Even though you didn't send it.)

A couple quick, possibly relevant searches:

Backscatter?

Forging the "From:" field.
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