Thanks for the comprehensive response. All I can say is yaboo sucks to all those pesky spammers! Cheers. Darran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:26 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Spamming with my E-Mail Address | Almost all of the email headers are forgeable, that is to say the | information in them is not reliable to trace the source of the spam. | You can track back the I/P addresses if you know what you are doing that | may not necessarily tell you that much. The present system of email | does not have a security model built into it and until we have something | like email that does this is still going to be a very significant | problem. | | Most spamming these days is a highly sophisticated business and | conducted not so much by humans typeing emails or even just bulk sending | them but using bots (automiated bits of code) that are sitting on some | people's PC busily sending out this rubbish. Quite a lot of the bot | infested PCs live in the far east and Eastern Europe where software | piracy and the measures against it have left us with systems that are | not patched and therefore allow botnets to be maintained more easily. | However even in the west where patched systems are rather more common | the spammers and criminals are become more and more clever at getting | malware onto your PC, first it was via the illegal file sharing | networks, then cracks and serial number websites and porn sites. Kits | are now widely available for people to set up websites designed | specifically to dump malware onto your PCs in order to facilitate acts | of fraud or nuisance spamming etc. | | There is very little you can do about it. especially once the spam lands | on your PC if your ISP does not have adequate spam filtering measures at | the ISP end. | | The advice to get a Googlemail address is not at all bad since the spam | filtering is very good and you have the advantage that should you move | ISP later on you keep your email address. I may not use the same ISP if | or when I move but being able to keep the email address constant is once | less thing to worry about. | | | Regards. | | Tristram Llewellyn | tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Technical Support | Sight and Sound Technology | | -----Original Message----- | From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf | Of Darran Ross | Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:07 PM | To: Access-UK | Subject: [access-uk] Spamming with my E-Mail Address | | Hi List. | | Can anyone give me any idea as to how I might go about finding out how | come | I'm receiving spam mail with my e-mail address as the sender? Or is this | | just a case of tough? luck? | | I'd really love to know who's responsible for this, if for no other | reason | than to let me vent my spleen! | | Regards. | | Darran | | | | ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- | ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] | ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: | ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | ** and in the Subject line type | ** unsubscribe | ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the | ** immediately-following link:- | ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] | ** or send a message, to | ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq | | ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- | ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] | ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: | ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | ** and in the Subject line type | ** unsubscribe | ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the | ** immediately-following link:- | ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] | ** or send a message, to | ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq | | | __________ NOD32 2894 (20080221) Information __________ | | This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. | http://www.eset.com | | ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq