Virus fallout. You are just another innocent victim of bad email administration. Delete them and move on. anthony On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:43 am, Vaughn Treude wrote: > Another dumb question, this time for the security types: > > Recently I've been getting messages like the following. I did not send > either of the original messages these reference, especially not at 1 AM and > 4 AM in the morning. Stranger yet is that the first message says I sent an > email to my remailer (vaughn@nakota-software.com) which was (wisely) > rejected by that service. I'm not knowingly using ".cpl" attachments; > isn't this a Windows thing? And I definitely didn't (intentionally) send > anything to the Russian address in the second message. Any ideas? > > Vaughn > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:17:20 -0700 > From: Mail Delivery System > To: vltreude@deru.com > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > vaughn@nakota-software.com > This message has been rejected because it has > a potentially executable attachment "Joke.cpl" > This form of attachment has been used by > recent viruses or other malware. > If you meant to send this file then please > package it up as a zip file and resend it. > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: Returned mail: User unknown > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > To: > Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 04:19:06 -0400 (EDT) > > from m6.arctel.ru [195.14.62.6] > > > *** ATTENTION *** > > Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its > delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section > labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----". > > The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section > labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----". > > The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail > could not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message > which is a general translation for other e-mail servers. > > Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail > administrator. > > --AOL Postmaster > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss