I use Mailwasher now for my personal email address and account which i have set up in the office. It is very efective. I cannot send email on this account as i have not linked it to our office account.
Mailwasher dutifully bounces and deletes spam for me on my personal account, but i assume in bouncing it sends out details of my business email from our server?
I have had 10 viruses sent to my business email in the last 3 days, all from spam type email addresses. Happily for us they are picked up before anyone can activate them.
Is this "hate mail" being sent to me for bouncing spam, or am i just feeling paranoid?
nicki ross martin
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W.32.Klez.H
I was likewise attracting viruses on a very regular basis between mid July and end of August, when it suddenly seems to have died down.
Virtually all the viruses were W.32.Klex.H and all were intercepted by Norton.
I think viruses possibly come in waves and then die down again - a bit like flu!
It appears to me that the incidence of virus attacks correlates very closely with school and college holidays!
Coincidence
Mailwasher generates an e-mail from the domain of your personal e-mail address (ie if you use Tiscali, it would be sent from Tiscali). Your business e-mail address is not connected, so I can't see how this could be the source of the viruses you've been receiving to your business address.
Note however that the e-mail sent by Mailwasher will potentially give away your servers IP address. You could therefore conceivably get attacks on random addresses on your business domain, but I think this is unlikely. Most spammers can't be bothered with this kind of retaliation, and in my experience many of them continue to ignore bounced addresses.