Email Overload

[Andy]

My email forwarding from urgentclick.com is out of control.

I forward to my yahoo account which has a size of 6 megs but each time I delete the spam it fills up in 1 or 2 hours. This is the worst I ever experienced.

I checked a pop account at urgentclick and it contained 1400 emails many of them around 32K each in size as attachments. It looks like some trojan is at work. The subject often contains "hi", "test" or an automated virus alert.

I traced one and it was from the far east and spoofing my domain name so all complaints go back to the apparent sender or return address which is spoofed. Plus many senders are made up from random names at my domain.

Even a new domain I registered is getting spam like this.

This sort of thing is very worrying for all us webmasters since ordinary people will assume we spammed them and we cannot use our normal email accounts effectively. I'm not sure what the people behind this hope to achieve, but I suspect they are either criminals selling spam lists to unsuspecting web marketers
 or they are cyber terrorists trying to shut down the web.

If you get any spam, please view the source code of the email to get the originating IP address and trace it before blaming the apparent sender.

[SensoVision]

Andy, thanks for alerting, by the way are you sure it wasn't MyDoom or it's mutation? as I guess that it was MyDoom, first it's use same way for masking itself(just check this post), also it has 32k in size... I just several of them, since one of my mail doesn't have virus scanner and all such mails come to me...
as for location it was sended I can't give you any useful info since it was sent by virus from one of my friend's PC I guess he was infected and since I'm in his book virus was sent my way as well.
to be sure just retrive one attachment and look what is inside, and see what's inside, mails which come to me have this files inside archive:
message.bat
readme.scr
message.scr
or this one is good:
readme.htm                                                     .pif
as you can see it has .pif extension far away from name and people couldn't spot it from beginning... in reality all these files are executables and will run the virus if you click on them. so I reccomend to everyone who recieve such mail simply delete attachement to have peace of your mind.

[Andy]

I was getting various types of attachment. Now they are all being auto-deleted. So I am only getting conventional spam now which takes less time to delete.