5k spam e-mail sent thru my e-mail account

Just looked through my personal e-mails at home and opened up one which came up with this...im thinking some kind of virus?

ive not e-mailed anyone in days and i dont know anyone with a yahoo account..possible hack..ive been hacked before and someone stole credit card details then tried to purchase stuff online with my cards..


Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

<[email protected]>:
210.74.232.162 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 552 mail size or count over quota.
Giving up on 210.74.232.162.

--- Original message follows.

Return-Path: Email removed - cannonfodder

The original message is over 5k. Message truncated to 1K.

Message-ID: <[email protected] com>
X-Yahoo-Forwarded: from [email protected] to [email protected]
X-Rocket-Spam: 124.21.195.94
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 124.21.195.94
X-Originating-IP: [124.21.195.94]
Authentication-Results: mta317.mail.re4.yahoo.com
from=blueyonder.co.uk; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 124.21.195.94 (EHLO yahoo.com) (124.21.195.94)
by mta317.mail.re4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:04:52 -0700
From: Edited out by your friendly moderator - cannonfodder
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mail Delivery (failure [email protected])
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:04:37 +0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
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boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001B_01C0CA80.6B015D10"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

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You'v got virus.
Run a scan, these viruses will use your e-mail contacts to reproduce it self, so when you have identifid it you should send the info to your contacts so the can clean it out to.

Yes, its a virus, its problably the type that will look up all of whom you've email/who emailed you, then it emails them and gives them the virus, and so on.

k thanx

scanning now

One quick comment. If I were you, I would edit your post to remove your real @blueyonder e-mail address from the pasted info.

Publishing your primary e-mail address on a forum is a guarenteed way to attract spam, and or e-mail viruses etc.

Also, once spammers have your address, they can set it as the "return path" in their spam e-mails so that you end up with 1000s of rejection messages from the e-mails they send.

Regards,

Hengis

Not just that, they can use your address in the from: line, and most clients won't know the difference, so even non-rejected messages would look like you sent them. (except some headers)

It could simply be an email bomb, some peopel do it to others to annoy them and flood their email box, or just common spam. Just search email bomb on google

Either way, a virus scan is a wise course of action - even if you don't think you have a virus.

If your email account has been hacked before, credit card details stolen, and now this, it sounds to me like you need to be more careful with what you download and open.

For a little crash course in PC safety, go to www.lavasoftusa.com and download Ad-Aware SE Personal. Then, find yourself a decent virus scanner, I do not recommend Norton or McAfee, they both suck. I personally like nod32 and AVG. You can also get a free (and very good one) at www.freeav.com.

Run them every 2-3 days, even daily if you have the time. Also google the following, install them, and use them daily: Spybot Search and Destroy, PestPatrol, and Pandasoft online virus scanner.

Sygate is a great program, better than AvG and alot of the other ones out imo. I think my computer runs alittle faster than it did with the other programs running in the background, and it also notifies you everytime something tries to connect to the internet, so you can manage which applications are running and what you want to be allowed to run much easier.