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OT: Think I have a BOT on my PC

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Dave from MN

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Keep getting emails, actually SPAM, from myself? I changed my password to my email account, but they still happen, and the emails do not appear in my "sent" mail box. I have trendmicro, a scan reveals nothing, I use Windows "defennder, and it says no unwanted items found. I downloaded trendmicro RUbotted and it doesnt find anything. Any advice.
 
Dave from MN,
I get those all the time at work. Someone has your email address and it's in some Spammer's database by now. They will spoof the "From" email address to you and then send you SPAM or other stuff (viruses, bots,etc). One we've been getting a lot is stuff spoofed from ups.com or fedex.com that says "undeliverable item", open the attachment to see what it is. Whatever you do, don't open it. The attachments have viruses in them.
 
Dave: Like JML755 said--it's not from you, it's just the spambot sending out the mail is programmed to take the "to:" address and use it as the "from" address. Analysis of the header would show it actually came from somewhere else--most likely overseas. You MIGHT be able to set up an incoming e-mail rule to delete all messages coming from your e-mail address, or at least forward them to a spam folder.
 
Why you'll love a Mac: Doesn't get PC viruses.

Designed with security in mind, Mac OS X isn’t plagued by constant attacks from PC viruses and malware. Likewise, it won’t slow you down with constant security alerts and sweeps. Every Mac is secure right out of the box, so you can safely go about your work without interruption.

I have been a mac user since the late '80's. Never had a problem with invasive items.
 
It's not that the Mac OS is not without security flaws it's that it is not a big enough target for the hackers. Think about it. Do you target 10% of the computers or 85% of the computers. The first Virus I ever saw was on a Mac Plus in the eighties.
 
Try "Spybot search and destroy" it's free.
I open suspicious looking stuff in "Print preview" and check it out then delete or save.
 
(quoted from post at 14:46:39 03/09/10) It's not that the Mac OS is not without security flaws it's that it is not a big enough target for the hackers. Think about it. Do you target 10% of the computers or 85% of the computers. The first Virus I ever saw was on a Mac Plus in the eighties.
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The first viruses were on the Apple II.
 
If you're unsure of the origin of a message, examine the email headers. Most email readers suppress this information, but you can usually view it. Depending on the particular email client, it may be a menu option such as View->Header. You can trace the header to find the origin of the email, although most spammers obfuscate the ultimate origin. But I'm pretty sure it will be apparent that the emails aren't originating from your PC.

It's a typical ruse for spammers to send out emails that appear to originate from the target. Why they do that I have no idea. What you should be alarmed about, however, is if you start seeing delivery failure messages for messages you never sent. This would be an indication that your PC may be infected by a "bot". But if the bounced message didn't actually originate from your PC it's more likely that a spammer is forging messages so they appear to originate from you but are actually coming from elsewhere.
 
After a short research, here is what I found about the first computer viruses:

A program called "Rother J" was the first computer virus to appear "in the wild" — that is, outside the single computer or lab where it was created. Written in 1981 by Richard Skrenta, it attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system and spread via floppy disk. This virus, created as a practical joke when Skrenta was still in high school, was injected in a game on a floppy disk. On its 50th use the Elk Cloner virus would be activated, infecting the computer and displaying a short poem beginning "Elk Cloner: The program with a personality."

The first PC virus in the wild was a boot sector virus dubbed Brain, created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written. However, analysts have claimed that the Ashar virus, a variant of Brain, possibly predated it based on code within the virus.

I must have been lucky to not get my macs infected in the early years.
 
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