Post #86323 by Tiki King on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 9:49 AM

"I'm thinking that it's a virus originating on the server of your domain host. "

I did check with my provider, (they are a small local company) and there is nothing on the server. I do have a spam filter, the 2000 emails yesterday were in the filter. (they send me a list of spam that gets caught in the filter, in case there is something I actually want) I only get a couple that actually make it to my inbox, and those get scrubbed by my antivirus software. Also my server scans attachments for known viruses, and I scan and delete pretty much any attachments that make it through regardless of who they are from. Plus I am on a Mac, so most viruses do not apply. Also, I get lots of "returned mail" that I know I did not send, as my mail server has no adress book. (well, it has one, but is intentionally blank) I also know that my machine is not sending them because most of the "returned" mail is to addresses I do not have on my machine. However, MY address and domain name are in A LOT of other peoples address books, and in hundreds of places on the web, so it is pretty easy for 'bots to find. One thing, not long ago, as an experiment I opened a yahoo account, with a giberish name. I did not use it anywhere, but within two weeks it was getting spam.