Suspicious Email Activity

[LonnieS]

If you don't care about the details, just want the bottom line, don't read past this first paragraph... Someone who is either a member of our club, or frequents this website has been infected with a virus, and is unwittingly sending it to many of us. I have put a filter on our NorthwestLegends.com mail server to block most of it. I am also contacting the main source of the virus email.

It's natural to assume that the virus emails are coming from NorthwestLegends.com - when in fact they are NOT. You have to dig into the invisible portion of the email header - (not the TO:'s and FROM:'s but the specific IP addresses that the message passes through in route). Then you have to lookup the owners & ISP's responsible for leasing those IP's and contact their admins. This takes a while, and only works when other people cooperate with me. Patience is in order.

Don't assume because you've become infected with an email virus that appears to have come from a NorthwestLegends.com member that they are truly at fault. 99% of email viruses come from a source that is NOT listed in the actual email.

Also, viruses that transmit through email do not commonly infect websites - such as ours, this more often is a myth. Just use a little discipline when pointing the finger, that's all.

Thanks, be careful, and check yourselves for virus infections.

Lonnie

[LonnieS]

One more note - for the time being, I have removed everyone's email address from our Roster page on this website.

You all have the ability to "hide email address" within your message board profile - just click the "Profile" button at the top of this page.

People can still reach you if their registered on this board (which makes them traceable more than usual) - by posting messages or by sending you an instant message. If you don't want your email address hidden, then don't do anything ;)

[H.O.Goat]

Lonnie, thanks for the info! 8)

[THOR]

Thanks for watching out for us Lonnie ;)

[1PROGTO]

I was wondering what was up. I received a bunch of (returned undeliverable) e-mails yesterday about noon or so from (various members)@northwestlegends.com. These seemed to be everyone on our roster. I have run two types of virus scans and seem to be clean. Just wanted to give you this info Lonnie in case it helps.

[LonnieS]

Let me know if anyone's still getting this. I put a filter on the email server which appears to be working well from my side.

[GPModJ]

Just so ya' know, this isn't an isolated thing. I work for an ISP here in Victoria and we just posted a notice to our customers letting them know of similar activity through our systems.