Possible Virus

Help !!!!
I use two computers ... home & office. Both are scanned daily by
Trend Micro ... both have been scanned using Ad-Aware SE & Spybot ...
all definitions up to date, automatically. I've had three people tell
me they're received virus type emails from me. Any ideas?
Thanks,

Hi

If ALL of your virus Defs are up to date and a scan of your PC's shows no
infections I would suggest a mass mailing worm from another PC. Ask them to
send you the headers from the emails to check that they have not originated
from your PC

"BobT" <ebco@(nospam)prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:enrvo01bbt6b1slqs5flg6c0424a6g6499@4ax.com...
> Help !!!!
> I use two computers ... home & office. Both are scanned daily by
> Trend Micro ... both have been scanned using Ad-Aware SE & Spybot ...
> all definitions up to date, automatically. I've had three people tell
> me they're received virus type emails from me. Any ideas?
> Thanks,

Hi
Thanks for the imput ... so far three people have told me they
received suspicious mail from me.....
Will ask for the headers ...
Thanks,

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:48:26 GMT, "M15t3r M4g1c" <nochace@all.com>
wrote:

>
>Hi
>
>If ALL of your virus Defs are up to date and a scan of your PC's shows no
>infections I would suggest a mass mailing worm from another PC. Ask them to
>send you the headers from the emails to check that they have not originated
>from your PC
>
>"BobT" <ebco@(nospam)prodigy.net> wrote in message
>news:enrvo01bbt6b1slqs5flg6c0424a6g6499@4ax.com...
>> Help !!!!
>> I use two computers ... home & office. Both are scanned daily by
>> Trend Micro ... both have been scanned using Ad-Aware SE & Spybot ...
>> all definitions up to date, automatically. I've had three people tell
>> me they're received virus type emails from me. Any ideas?
>> Thanks,
>

Just because they say you sent it does NOT mean you actually did. You email address could
have been in the Addressbook of someone who was infected and the worm used your email
address to send itself to new potential victims. The recipients see the sender email
address and "assume" you sent it but they never examined the headers to see if you actually
did.

Dave



"BobT" <ebco@(nospam)prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:9740p0ha2im981gdbdic0tu91cfv1hqbb1@4ax.com...
| Hi
| Thanks for the imput ... so far three people have told me they
| received suspicious mail from me.....
| Will ask for the headers ...
| Thanks,
|
| On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:48:26 GMT, "M15t3r M4g1c" <nochace@all.com>
| wrote:
|
| >
| >Hi
| >
| >If ALL of your virus Defs are up to date and a scan of your PC's shows no
| >infections I would suggest a mass mailing worm from another PC. Ask them to
| >send you the headers from the emails to check that they have not originated
| >from your PC
| >
| >"BobT" <ebco@(nospam)prodigy.net> wrote in message
| >news:enrvo01bbt6b1slqs5flg6c0424a6g6499@4ax.com...
| >> Help !!!!
| >> I use two computers ... home & office. Both are scanned daily by
| >> Trend Micro ... both have been scanned using Ad-Aware SE & Spybot ...
| >> all definitions up to date, automatically. I've had three people tell
| >> me they're received virus type emails from me. Any ideas?
| >> Thanks,
| >
|

BobT wrote:
> Help !!!!
> I use two computers ... home & office. Both are scanned daily by
> Trend Micro ... both have been scanned using Ad-Aware SE & Spybot ...
> all definitions up to date, automatically. I've had three people tell
> me they're received virus type emails from me. Any ideas?
> Thanks,

Bob:

Another PC has a virus that harvests your email address from the mail store
and/or address book and then sends the virus to 3 other addresses that it
harvests from the same PC. This is a very common way for viruses to spread.

Steve