i'm receiving lots of virus emails!

[nova-bossa]

in the last months i received lots of emails with virus attachments.
today i changed the email address of my gallery to a new one and just some hours later i received there my first email with a virus attached. so i conclude the email address of my gallery is beeing found on the net by these email virus.

is the gallery email address somehow not protected? this is crazy!

[Joachim Müller]

I've re-checked the source code - I haven't found any instance where the gallery admin email address should be visible to the public.
Are you sure you haven't set up a catch-all on your new email address? Also, make sure the address is non-trivial (don't use webmaster@mydomain.com or similar, instead use my.email.addy@mydomain.com).

What version of coppermine are you running btw?

GauGau

[nova-bossa]

i use version 1.3.0.
my new email address is a free fastmail webbased and has no catch-all feature.

the email address is not visible but is it possible that it gets somehow "crawled" by net viruses or worms?

[Joachim Müller]

there are lots of known scripts and backdoors that extract valid email addresses out of freemail provider's lists. I know there are exploits against hotmail.com, gmx.de, web.de.
The exploit works like this: you have a script that sends thousands of emails to made up addresses of a certain free mailer domain. Depending on the fact if the address exists the server will send back different answers.

If you really want to proof that coppermine is to blame, you will have to use a "real" genuine email address on a domain that is not related to freemailing.

GauGau