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Using a domain lookup provided by Godaddy (which is not the actual registrar of this domain):

The domain registration data shows an American-looking address, but the street address in Little Rock, AR does not exist:

http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=cheap24dr...

Looking deeper at

http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsRegData.aspx?k=XTK0UTf...

we find that their domain registrar is BIZCN.COM, INC.

China takes half our money selling us real things, and the other half through fraud. So the only authorities with any power to whom you could report them heartily approve of what they are doing.

Uh, it's not possible to notify everyone of every spam email that arrives in someone's inbox. Otherwise, we'd be doing it 24 hours per day, forever. Now if you are talking about the worm that reproduces itself to the address book, yep, that happens too.

If this is happening to you, are you sure it a virus or a worm and what makes you think so? A little more information would be helpful. Do not write back or click on any links....that's what cause the virus/worm to run. Same for attachments. Never, ever, open an attachment or an email from someone you don't know since there's a good chance it might contain a virus.

Check for "free virus scan" from Norton, Trend Micro USA, and Bitdefender (and any other GOOD ones you know of) and run scans with them. If nothing at all shows (remember, nothing is 100% effective), try a couple more. If still nothing, it's unlikely you have a virus/worm and are doing something wrong. If someone wrote you and send YOU sent them a virus, but nothing shows, it could be that they have the virus/worm. It's a fact of life that these things are hard to track down to the original source, so everyone involved should scan their systems.

That's a virus. And a difficult one to remedy. Some have gone so far as to print a copy of their contacts list, and then delete all contacts off the list. I liked the idea another person had. It was to go into their contact list and put the letter "x" after each email address, thus rendering the addresses useless. Then when you want to email anyone on the list, you can still find the address, then remove the x when it's in to "TO" field on any new email you're creating. Also, check you away settings. Even if you haven't used it, settings can change. Make sure you don't having anything set to automatically send out a message. This has been known to contribute to this particular kind of virus.

Ideally, the best solution is not using Yahoo! or Hotmail free web-based accounts. This won't happen with Gmail. Although away settings have to be periodically checked.

The 1st thing you can do is copy the header information and then forward their e-mail with the pasted header info at the beginning of your new e-mail to [email protected]. This is the watchdog of spam e-mails and looks specifically for the e-mails which are obvious spams, false deals, etc.

Do it for EVERY e-mail you from the group. What happens is that a company will offer affiliate status to people and these affiliates will end out as much junk as they can hoping to hook someone. So by referring all of them to the gov they will take appropriate action to investigate and shut them down.

I know this works because for the longest time AIM was letting spammers send junk by the tons. I setup an automatic forward to the gov and to AIM for ever e-mail that hit my box. Three weeks later it all stopped.

The comment by one of the users to run multiple anti-virus programs (AVP) is not a good idea. When you have multiple AVP's on your system, they look at the other AVP program as a virus. For AVP's to properly work you want one on your system which can check incoming e-mails and take appropriate action to quarantine or remove the questionable code.

Your best defense?

1. Have your MS updates turned on.

2. Have a Firewall.

3. Have an AVP

4. Have an anti-spam software.

Set your system to update nightly for these software programs and do a nightly scan. When completed, have your computer either turn off, or reboot. This way the updates take effect when your computer is turned on.

Lastly ... don't click on links or attachments unless you are certain they are from a trusted source. Remember, even your best friend can send you a virus if their system is infected.

Safe Computing.

I document unsolicited mail. I am worn out of skimming advertisements to learn solutions. If I desire to seem at advertisements I'll decide upon up a newspaper. Sometimes while a "spamswer" is suggested it does not get deleted. A thumbs-down could be a method of letting others understand that the reply has been suggested.