Someone Trying To Send Me a Virus

cjkitticjkitti
edited August 2005 in Spyware & Virus Removal
I'm really annoyed because someone keeps sending me an email, and in the "from" it has my own first initial and last name but a with, of course, a different email address. At first I thought it was my brother because he has the same first initial, but now I know it's not. Yesterday this same address tried to send me a file txt.1 and now today this tried to send another virus (what I pasted below) I've gotten 3 or 4 from my this same person or whatever it is in the past and I do not know this person or web address. My address is cjackson5225@... How does this happen? Did it search on my email address and try to duplicate it to send me some virus back? Strange how in the "To" whoever it is put the same name "cjackson". Does this mean I'm in some kinda of address book that this cjackson51@houston.rr.com periodically sends viruses to? And how can I get this person or whatever it is to lose my address??? I'm really ticked and wish I could send them something back!


From: "Cjackson" <cjackson51@houston.rr.com> Add to Address Book
Date: 2005/08/12 Fri AM 09:14:43 EDT
To: "Cjackson" <cjackson5225@bellsouth.net>



This message has been processed by Symantec AntiVirus.

Taxes.exe was infected with the malicious virus Trojan.Tooso.L and has been
deleted because the file cannot be cleaned.

From: "Cjackson" <cjackson51@houston.rr.com> Add to Address Book
Date: 2005/08/12 Fri AM 09:14:43 EDT
To: "Cjackson" <cjackson5225@bellsouth.net>





Download Attachment: To_reduce_the_tax.rar

Comments

  • Lord_NightLord_Night Piqua Ohio
    edited August 2005
    this is because you have entered you email addy somewhere on the web where a email spider has pulled it from, or you gave it to another site somewhere that sells your email.

    it happens allot, I get them to but my nortons stops em all. the only way to get around that is use a hotmail, gmail, yahoo. or something like that. any page that wants your email.. give em that one.

    andf I got the same tax email you got,,, but said it was from my main road runner account.... which is funny since I dont use that emaiil accout for anything.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    If you happen to have a 'copy' of outlook 2003 (part of office 2003), it has a built in spam filer (much like google and hotmail). I have found it does an excellent job of catching all the crap that I get sent my way. Firebird is a good free alternative as well.

    good luck.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    SpamBayes is also an excellent tool. It works with Outlook or Outlook express. It's 'trainable', in that it 'learns' from examples you provide from the start. It's not a blocker, such as AOL's, which zaps email without you even getting a chance to see it.
  • cjkitticjkitti
    edited August 2005
    Thanks for all the help and I'll look into those programs. What I don't get is how come they can't track these people from the email address it comes from? I mean, I don't know what ISP houston.rr.com is, I looked it up and just got a bunch of junk of different kinds of web pages that the link is just home.houston.rr.com on all of them. What is that ISP anyway? At least my bellsouth recognized the file, so that makes me feel good (although I wouldn't have downloaded it anyways). And I searched on the files associated with that virus in the registry and on my computer and I don't have any of them. I looked because I got nervous that I opened the email to begin with. I just think that people doing this need to be found and taken care of, I don't know why in this day and age when they can track anything, how they can't find them and make them pay! It's hard not to take it personal! If I sent a message back to that address will they get it?...haha...I'm sorry but I want to be a little demon...lol ;D
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