Email Annoyance Part 3 and Final

I should be writing. Instead I'm blogging. Bad me.

The email problem is called "Spoofing." Basically, someone got a hold of my website address, found a contactlink, and used it as a launching point to send out 1000,000 or however many emails from some anaonymous server somewhere. Nothing can be done about it. Jerks.

Meanwhile, I should get back to writing, but I wanted to close that exciting part of the saga that is my life.

Email Annoyance Update 2

So, my computer had some possible spyware cookies which have been deleted a joke.puncher virus, which is also gone (in fact, the files with it in it are zips that have never been accessed or opened on this machine, so I think that problem is gone entirely, fingers crossed).

Which leaves the question, who is got hold of my domain name and is playing silly buggers with it?

I'll find out tomorrow, I hope.

Well, That's Annoying

So I just got 63 returned emails from my domain, erikbuchanan.ca. Apparently a lot of the emails didn't go through.

This is annoying on 2 fronts:

1. I didn't send any emails from any name at erikbuchanan.ca, let alone the ones they're coming up with, and

2. I can't send any emails from erikbuchanan.ca. It's a shell domain, and the email addresses there all lead to my home address, from which I would send any replies.

So, what the heck is going on?

I've called my domain host and told them, as well as emailed them, and am currently scanning my computer, though I don't think it can be me, as I, as I said, cannot send emails from that address.

So that's mighty annoying.

Meanwhile, if anyone is getting spam from erikbuchanan.ca, please accept my apologies, and know I'm doing what we can to fix the problem.