Email attack from the website

In the past week I have been inundated with infected mail (viruses and worms) into the email address that is posted on my website (and even a few variations of my email address that do not even exist!)

Aside from suffering from the major annoyance and deleting them unopened, is there anything else I can do about this?

Depending on your server, many have options that allow you to block junk e-mail from appearing on your computer instead of you deleteing every time you go into your e-mail.

Thanks. I'll see what I can do.

I do not even know how many of them are being delivered to me at all as they are to email addresses that do not even exist (ie: Box4502@pizzacouponsnow.com--the domain is correct, but the address does not exist) They have viruses and my anit-virus software is going off all day long! It's so annoying.

Ha! Some of the addresses of these spammers (seems like I am in the same doo-doo with you) even have CIA or FBI inside.

I tried to send CIA a message from the contact form on their website, and the contact form is blocked.

CIA guys don't need feedback they track the whole world automatically

If you have a "cpanel" (via your hosting company) you can place all mail from the "funnel" account to the trash can... So anything that comes in to: dfgh45ydftbdfh956@yourdomain.com would go directly to the trash...

But they have different emails, both to the left and to the right of @

Don't know how exactly they are doing, but they continue sending me garbage with attachments.

Originally Posted by freetraff Ha! Some of the addresses of these spammers (seems like I am in the same doo-doo with you) even have CIA or FBI inside. I tried to send CIA a message from the contact form on their website, and the contact form is blocked. CIA guys don't need feedback they track the whole world automatically

Yes, Freetraff. I am getting those also. Warning me that I have been on 130 illegal websites! The idiot who invented this antivirus software that I am using must not have envisioned this many emails. It sounds an audible alarm each time one comes in. I am ready to unplug those darn speakers!

Originally Posted by sandiego If you have a "cpanel" (via your hosting company) you can place all mail from the "funnel" account to the trash can... So anything that comes in to: dfgh45ydftbdfh956@yourdomain.com would go directly to the trash...

Thanks, SanDiego. I have been trying various things to keep this junk from downloading from the server. The problem is I don't want to accidentally dump valid mail from customers.

With most Antivirus programs you can turn off the sound in the "options" somewhere.

As for these emails, they are different then what I was thinking... It's not specific to your site or a form on your site, it's just plain virus spam.

Originally Posted by sandiego With most Antivirus programs you can turn off the sound in the "options" somewhere. As for these emails, they are different then what I was thinking... It's not specific to your site or a form on your site, it's just plain virus spam.

No, San Diego, I am getting both, at present. Much of it is coming to every variation of address @mydomain.com. I don't even understand why that stuff is being delivered.