how do I stop getting e-mails from postmaster@hotmail; that say delivery status notification(failure). This is a an automatically generated delivery status notification message about twenty times a day every day
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January 19th, 2011 11:40pm

Ahha - some super smart guy I found through googling made an excellent point. I am just going to continuw to send to Junk and run my spyware programs just in case. Should stop eventually I hope!Here is the guys response to someone with the same issue as we have:"You do understand that I could send out 1 million emails that said it came from Email removed for privacy -- every single kickback, failure, etc. would go to Email removed for privacy even though your machine, even your mailbox had nothing to do with any of it.Just because you get an email that says it came from your buddy does not mean his machine was actually infected.. Nor does it mean his hotmail account was even hacked."He then added after someone sent him a copy of the email:" It did not come from his machine - so his machine was not infected sending email.. some guy in Columbia is the infected one, or the spammer.. Dropping email on a hotmail smtp server saying it came from a hotmail account, etc.hotmail did not even send the mail on, because it did not like it.Its also a way of spamming -- I want send Email removed for privacy spam -- well vs sending the spam directly to domainA.com mail server that will prob block it, I bounce it off some other server saying its from Email removed for privacy -- that server kicks it back to Email removed for privacy mail server, so now this mail looks like a kickback I highly doubt his machine was even infected -- worse case he prob gave away access to his contact list with some scam site, etc.There are a million ways to grab email addresses -- is this person that email was sent to someone he actually knows??edit: here is the thing, most crapware that would infect your machine to send spam is clearly never going to want to use your email address, cuz then you would get warned that something is up because you would start getting flooded with kickbacks that did not go through. So if I had your machine infected sending out my spam -- I would make sure I never use your actual email address as the sender So odds are my bot will run longer! cuz you may never notice doing it.I have not seen a virus/crapware/whatever that actually sends from the users email account in years and years and years -- they are too easy to track and shutdown.. If I would infect your machine to send spam, I would send directly to the email servers of the domains I want to send email too, etc. I would not want to actually use your email client or account -- for another thing most email accounts have limits to how many emails you can send before they get shutdown, etc. I don't want to send 100 emails, I want to send 10 million of them -- so I sure and the ____ am not going to route through your email account that will get shut down at 50, etc.I randomly use from addresses.. I sure don't want the email coming back to servers sending mail, etc.Fighting spam is a ____, they have all kinds of neat ways of getting around every new stop you put in place -- the sad part is if the world was not full of IDIOTS it would not be worth it -- even if you could send 100 million for free, if NOBODY responded!!! Who and the F.. buys viagra from some ____ email they got??"
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February 18th, 2011 2:13am

It's SPAM. I am googling it now because it started for me about a month ago. 30 -50 a day, then 10 the next etc. I clicked it all as junk and after about a week it stopped.... and noooow it's back. If you clcik on one (I only did because I deleted a message in front of it and so it auto opens the next. Grrr.) and it looks all legit but towards the bottom is a Viagra/____ picture ad. Whatever you do DO NOT CLICK ON THE ATTACHMENT! Virus waiting to happen.
February 18th, 2011 2:27am

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