reporting spam/virus senders?

[lozina]

I've been getting a bunch of emails every day which are disguised as official Microsoft emails distributing updates. The virus attached is probably the Swen virus, after doing some researhc on symantec.com. The biggest problem is these emails are clogging up my mailbox and ptotentially causing legitimate emails to be lost. My question is, how do I report these email address sending the viruses? I contacted the owner of one of the domains, which came out to Network Solutions, and they replied with this garbage:

Thank you for contacting Network Solutions.


With regard to your inquiry, although we appreciate
your interest in the activities of our domain holders
it is not the responsibility of Network Solutions,
to "police" the Internet.


On November 1, 1999, a three-judge panel of the U. S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth-Circuit ruled that Network
Solutions has no responsibility or duty to police the rights
of trademark owners concerning domain names.


If the domain owner in question is conducting criminal
activity we would ask you to defer to either the police
or the proper authorities.

So who the hell do I report to? My local police department? LOL they probably don't even know how to turn a computer on.

 

[43st]

Forward the emails (as an attachment, with any viruses deleted) to ISP that sent the message. Look in the email header to find the origin. After that look it up in a WHOIS search engine or simply send it to abuse@__________, postmaster@________, and admin@__________.

 

[bsobel]

Most of the from addresses are mined anyhow , so the 'person' who sent it is likely not the person your responding to.
Bill

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: bsobel
Most of the from addresses are mined anyhow , so the 'person' who sent it is likely not the person your responding to.
Bill

Exactly, with the last worm explosion we received dozens of false "you sent us a virus" messages at work from automatic email scanning software that is too stupid to look beyond the forged "from"" field.

When you get a worm/virus email from "fred@flintstone.com" chances are very good that the email is really from someone else who happens to have "fred" in their address book or internet cache.