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? -RainMaker

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. -dmsellers

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. -RainMaker

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 :cool: they track the whole world automatically :D -freetraff

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. -freetraff

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! -RainMaker

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. -sandiego

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.:mad: -RainMaker

Do you have a form on your site that they can fill in and send something to you?
There have recently been several attempts to hack or break these forms to allow spammers to use them, these "bots" go through your site, find the form and try to exploit it...

The best way to stop that part of the spam is to add a server side verification to the email part of the form where your server makes sure the email address that is entered into the form is actually valid...




-sandiego

I do not think (although I am not certain) that this is coming through my form because it is simply coming into variations of addresses @mydomainname.com.

Now I have upted the filters on Outlook Express and changed the setting so it will not download from the server (Verizon's server) questionable emails.

Now I have a new problem. (I have had this problem before only it's much worse now) SOME MAIL IS BEING DIVERTED FOR NO REASON THAT I CAN FIGURE OUT. I have had this problem before with Outlook Express. I don't have many rules set up and the rules are straight forward, but other mail gets dumped into the scrap pile even though it has nothing in it that should snag it.

Now it is worse because instead of going to my deleted items folder, this mail is never getting to me at all.

For example: I no longer get email notification on my own threads from SP. There is nothing in those emails that violated the simple rules I have made. This is so infuriating. -RainMaker

Yes, that particular exploit applies to PHP. -Jeff Blackwell