| To those coming here looking for the
origin of some spam that you may have received ... I'm sorry about that, but it wasn't me sending it out! My ISP tells me that there is a virus out there which takes addresses from infected systems' mail boxes and uses these for "spoofing" origin addresses on outgoing spam. Apparently some computer somewhere has this virus which got my address from that system's address book and is using it for an "origin address" for spam. This virus is NOT on my system. The spam is NOT coming from my ISP. However, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of spam e-mails going out that appear as though they originated "@btripp.com" ... which they definitely have not! Needless to say, I (and my ISP) have been trying to figure out what to do about this (as I get huge blocks of "bounced" spam showing up in my mail box!), but aside from digging into the IP codes in the headers of each and every "bounced" message and contracting the postmasters at the actual ISPs sending the spam, there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about this until the viruses pick some other address to use in their "spoofed" headers. Again, my apologies to anybody getting spam that appears to have come from my domain. |