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You could always hunt them down and kill them. That would probably do the trick

 

It worked for the people in Russia

 

This is becoming a common occurrence, and it's not just spam -- a lot of these bounced emails are carrying viruses.

I was getting 200-400 a day of these things over the weekend. Removing the catchall solved the problem. When you think about it, removing the catchall is a good idea anyway -- you enable the valid addresses and anything else just goes back to the sender.

 

Yeah, every returned mail had the attachment with it. It promised incest pictures which I will bet every dollar I own and all the ones I don't was a virus.

I have created every normal variation that people choose to email - info@ , etc so the catchall was turned off.

Thanks for all the replies

 

I am experience the same problems, did anybody find any solutions. If anybody found any solution please post it, so everybody can get rid of spam emails from own domain.

 

It only lasts a few days and there is nothing you can do. Personally, as soon as it starts I just send any mail not addressed to a valid email of mine to the black hole but if you are afraid you will miss something, you can just delete all of the returned mails for the few days it lasts.

 

The problem I am having now is all mail from my site is being marked as Spam with certain anti-spam software - I have to resend using another e-mail which isn't as professional in my opinion.

This makes contacting customers a real pain, having to resend so many messages sometimes, and not knowing if people even get the message sucks, because not all spam programs give a reply.

 

Disable catchall on your server and then delete the mail account being used and add another new one - something like or somethiong non-standard - email spoofers will go for the standard ones like info@, admin@, contact@, addurl@, etc.

 

I understand that part to some degree, but spoofers are now using things like

That isn't so much the problem as the domain name being blacklisted so NO email from that domain names goes through to a customer.

 

Using SPF records could possibly help protect your domains reputation.

 

Make sure you have a firewall like ZoneAlarm when you're browsing the internet. Many computers are compromised and IPs are taken from you if you don't have a firewall and in turn used against you.

Those who have servers, I precaution you now to have a firewall set up on your server. A few weeks ago my server was compromised and a spammer used the IP address of my server to send out mass spam and phishing emails. That thus got my dedicated server suspended for about 72 hours and profit lost.

Not worth it.
I'd try to do everything to prevent it, my main man, so that it doesn't happen again.