[SpamCop-List] Re: My own e-mail address as "Reply to" !!! thanks again!!

[Lise]

thanks, Spybot has removed the problem!!
Funny, I used SPybot before, but I had gotten tired of spending such a lot
of my time tracking spies and spammers that I had almost forgotten about all
this..

"WazoO" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:crpcu1$aqb$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> "Lise" <lise.tr372 at videotron.ca> wrote in message
> news:crpbhl$a0c$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> > this morning, when I clicked on options to see full headers of a spam in
> > Outlook, I had the surprise to see my own e-mail address in the 1st line
> of
> > it.
> >
> > How is this possible and what can I do about it?
>
>  It's called forgery, very easy to do by simply changing a few
> things in the configuration of most any email application.  If
> you have the time, money, resources, knowledge, you might
> possubly one day track the spammer down and make him/her
> pay for the aggravation.  However, here in the real world,
> about the best you can do is make your complaints known to
> the spew source and hope that they actuallt do something ...
>
> > Also, for about a month now, every time I turn my computer on, I see my
> > alert tracker block a neptsy Trojan trying to get out of my computer.
But
> > when I run Ad-ware, I don't find anything.. If I consult alert tracker
in
> > Norton, my computer is also blamed. What should I do?
>
>  This is a peer-to-peer support newsgroup thing for issues dealing
> with the SpamCop too-set.  There are many other places to go
> chasing down a Windows-has-been-compromised issue, even
> suggesting the spamcop.geeks newsgroup here if nothing else.
>
> But, while typing ... Ad-Aware is but one tool .. and of course,
> the first question on that is when is the last time it was update?
> Major revisions in the base application in the last few months and
> the database gets updated very regularly.
>
> SpyBot- Search & Destroy, HijackThis, and even the latest weird
> one ... Microsoft's recently acquired and re-named anti-spyware
> tool currently being offered as a free demo (fully functional) found at
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx  .. and that's not
> including the many, many on-line scanner tools, some of those even
> found at the major anti-virus sites ....
>
>