Computer help please

[lizbud]

May be nothing but I have been having email problems today with one of my email accounts. My pc security refused to access one IP address b/c of
security concerns. It gave me the IP address of the problem message.

Does anyone know if an IP address can be traced by number?

[Puckstop31]

Does anyone know if an IP address can be traced by number?

Yes. But when a bug is the source of the message, the IP you see is usually not the actual sender. IP's can be 'spoofed' as well.

The key to catching the actual sender is being able to see the SMTP traffic with a firewall as it is coming in live. If you would share the IP, I could give you a general location of where it was issued.

[Lady's Human]

Norton is an ineffective resource hog.

There are a few free A/V suites that are far better. I hate it when a company lives off of it's reputation for most of the last decade.......In the tech world that should be grounds for going out of business, but much like budweiser, marketing trumps performance and reason.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I also have Norton and it's free with my comcast but it just doesn't do the job in my opinion. I had some problems a while back and Brian,Puckstop31, helped me out again. He recommended that I try Malewarebytes. I tried the free version and it found all kinds of bad things on my computer that Norton had missed. I later bought it and they also have coupon codes that you can find and use too. If you'd like to try it here's a link to the website: http://www.malwarebytes.org/. Good luck.

[Puckstop31]

I also have Norton and it's free with my comcast but it just doesn't do the job in my opinion. I had some problems a while back and Brian,Puckstop31, helped me out again. He recommended that I try Malewarebytes. I tried the free version and it found all kinds of bad things on my computer that Norton had missed. I later bought it and they also have coupon codes that you can find and use too. If you'd like to try it here's a link to the website: http://www.malwarebytes.org/. Good luck.

I use Malwarebytes if the machine already has a bug. Because, IIRC, the free version is not an active scanner, it only scans when you ask it. Part of my job is to try and break the products we use and, so far, I have yet to break through ESET.

Plus, I am just not a big fan of freeware as the front line of defence.

[Catty1]

Freedom, even though the IP is likely spoofed I did a check on ARIN Whois, which sent me to LACNIC.

Apparently the spam originates in Brazil, if this is to be believed.

e-mail: abuse at gvt dot com dot br

You can always send the spam message with all the headers to that address.

I start any searches with ARIN using the last IP address listed "from" (though I didn't do that with yours), and copy and paste the IP address in the upper RH corner here: https://www.arin.net/

It's fun!

[Freedom]

It's fun!

Um . . . OK. (All Greek to me, sorry!)