I received hundreds of e-mail messages this morning, some from folks wanting to know why I was sending them infected messages, and the others bounce notifications sent because mail servers had rejected mail I had sent because of bad attachments. The problem? I did not send the mail, nor did my computer send them without me knowing. This has been going on for a while, it seems that my personal e-mail address has become popular with several spammers. It has gotten so bad that a few days ago I received a bounce e-mail from AOL listing hundreds of invalid addresses to which my mail could not be delivered. The mail was porn spam, and if that many failed I am sickened at how many might have been delivered, claiming to be from me. I had AOL forward some of the messages to me so I could see the headers, the sender is definitely me, but the servers that the messages were submitted from were not mine at all. This is all very aggravating, especially as there is absolutely nothing I can do about it at all. Fun fun fun. Has anyone else had to deal with this before? If so, please share your thoughts.
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