i got spammed i believe

I just got an email with the From and To line being my personal email address and i am ticked from a canadian drup company.

i am very careful about this type of stuff happening ao i am at a loose to figure out how this is happening. can anyone explain how this is happening and is there anything i can do to stop it before my clients start getting them. have already emailed my client base that its not me sending them but if there is a way to stop this cold i would like to know how.

**** im mad. excuse the french.

 

I would haphazard a guess and say that someone with your email address in their address book has a trojan which causes this. You would need to track down the owner with the infected computer. It seems that the email header/properties should contain the infected computer's IP.

 

whiskeyman

this is the header from the email - can you tell anything by this. i x'd out my isp not that i dont trust people on this site but dont want to take a chance. is there anything i can do ???

X-Envelope-From: greghunt AT icqmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:58:08 GMT
X-Originating-IP: [72.482.8.2]
X-Originating-Email: [greghartman@xxxxxxx]
X-Sender: greghartman@xxxxxxxxx
To: <greghartman@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Doctor Kirsten : 55% off your order
From: <greghartman@xxxxxxxx>
X-Antivirus: Scanned by F-Prot Antivirus (hxxp://www.f-prot.com)

 

Geobytes shows it originated from Osaka, Japan. I can't seem to find any info at DNS Stuff with my limited account.

 

whiskeyman

guess i cant go find this person and beat the blank out of him seeing he is a few thousand miles away. thanks for your help.

what can i do to prevent this from happening again ??? what software do i need ??? currently i am using za security suite as my main protection but also have spyware sft loaded and running.

 

Arie

sorta what i figured. sure could make it embarrasing as a business for clients to get some of those spam emails with my name attached to it. clients would figure it must be okay if greg is emailing us.

thanks all.

 

BTW, I think that IP address is invalid. I think all the numbers must be 255 or less for an IP address.