How do I track down anybody who is sending viruses to someone Else's mail address by hacking my yahoo mail Id?

Question

For the past some time, I am receiving returned mails from Mail Delivery System" , stating that the mail I sent to the concerned address has not been delivered. Now the interesting thing is I have never ever sent any mail to that particular address and containing that particular matter. The mailer daemon shows IP Address of the sender but every time it was changed. I am worried about the security issues and not able to track this down. I know these mails must be containing viruses or any other harmful tool but this act is adversly affecting my status and I just want to get rid of it. Please help.

Answer 1

I get these all the time... what has ha;ppened is that you have your email online in a message, on a chat room, in a website... the choices are endless, and a "namebot" harvested it... now it's being used to "spoof" messages.

Yes, you CAN track this down, but only if you've the resources of the NSA or sonething equally large. You'd need programmers, a VERY fast and large computer and- lets' face it- that ain't you.

Report this to Yahoo an change your email. Let your friends know your new email (do NOT use an automatic mail-change notification program) and then be very careful about where you leave traces of yourself. My actual email is shown only as a .GIF image on webpages and the 'bots can't pick those up (yet)!

Pretty sad when theese dorks screw up what should be a great experience, but if there's a way to make money illegally, you know someone's gonna be there in a flash.

Change the email and just be careful in future... and good luck.

Answer 2

Much the same situation here. Saw a huge string of auto-replies to spam from my account, and shortly after I changed my email password Yahoo blocked my account from sending any email. Changing your password and running security scans is definitely a good idea, but might not fix the problem. Possibly somebody has hold of your contacts list (mine too) and is just using that with a spoofed return address. I restarted computer in safe mode and ran a full scan with malwarebytes, but didn't find anything. Hopefully Yahoo, with far more resources than we have, can get somewhere by looking into headers, IP addresses, server logs, etc.

Answer 3

Waste of time. The emails are scanned for all known viruses and proper blockers applied.

So when you read about a virus in emails ITS A NEW VIRUS . And developing and sending viruses is a Federal Crime punishable by years of inprisonment. So id say its not happening in your case at all.

Answer 4

Nothing stops a spammer from sending an e-mail with your e-mail address. Programs like sendmail allow any from address [e-mail]

Unless every server implement domainkeys like technology, I don't think there is any way to avoid spam.

http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys

Answer 5

If yahoo server has been hacked, u can not do anything. but in your case it simply spam. no one has used u'r ID, instead they spoofed SMTP and it is easy. so no need to worry. block SMTP trafiic from the respective host.

Answer 6

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en

free down load,keeps track of ip address.At least it used to.I have wireless version and it dose.

Answer 7

HERE DO A GOOGLE FOR WHOIS THEN LOOK FOR IP WHO IS DO A WHOIS REPORT THEM TO THERE ISP..