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Name: gazzapee
Date: February 6, 2005 at 20:17:26 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: Athlon 1800
Comment:

I am receiving emails to my IE6 account which contain no subject line and are seemingly blank. I have not opened them intentionally but if you pass the mouse over them they open anyway. Are they timebombs etc? AVG doesn't catch them. Some of the sender's addresses are (from properties): yzozhgetrolqv@gyaloglo.hu oamrnqjacdty@sonic.ne axvkqrzybp@infonex.com ptbvrzdowq@sanriotown.com

What are these and how do we stop them?



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Name: Eagle Computers
Date: February 6, 2005 at 20:33:07 Pacific
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Getting blank emails here also. Spam server probably having a meltdown. Isn't that a crying shame. Just delete them, and don't worry.

Steve


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Response Number 2
Name: RobertEL
Date: February 6, 2005 at 23:06:23 Pacific
Reply:

They come in waves, different senders. Whonose why they are blank.


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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: February 7, 2005 at 01:39:11 Pacific
Reply:

You're welcome to forward a few to:

IE6@Golden-Triangle.com

Dunno what an IE6 account is, but if you are using a mail client which opens files just by rolling over them, you're headed for trouble.

M2


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Response Number 4
Name: gazzapee
Date: February 7, 2005 at 04:33:29 Pacific
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Sorry troops, I meant Outlook Express 6. And the mouse does not rollover them, I do have to click to open. Not thinking straight. Very hot in New Zealand right now and high humidity 85-90% - ugh - making brain go fuzzy. Thanks for info. I will send them on to Golden Triangle.


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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: February 7, 2005 at 04:52:22 Pacific
Reply:

I looked at those 6 msgs.

Nothing obviously dangerous.

Now as to how/why you're getting htem and maybe how to stop them...

Can you make OE "show full headers" then send a few headers?

M2


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Response Number 6
Name: Derek
Date: February 9, 2005 at 17:19:22 Pacific
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I run with #1. I get stacks of those and with similar garbled up addresses (obviously faked). You could always make a message rule to delete them at server. Set it to dump them it doesn't contain a or b or c or etc (to end of alphabet).

Fine as long as nobody genuine sends you messages without subject lines. I use an approved list of contacts as first rule but this wouldn't suit all users.

Derek.W


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Response Number 7
Name: lwsmiser
Date: March 8, 2005 at 15:19:01 Pacific
Reply:

These are undoubtedly intended to determine is your email address is "good". The email requests a zero length image from the server which gives the spoofer proof of a vaible email address.

I have changed my method of reading email by setting one rule to save all email in a folder (New Email). I then go offline and read my mail. That way no auto response is sent. If you have that feature turned on you should turn it off. I then dispose of the empty emails and after a week or so no more have been received. Hopefully that will take care of the problem.


Larry Smiser, San Clemente, CA


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