I GOT 22 VIRUS EMAILS AFTER POSTING QUESTIONS

[Ann]

I posted 2 emails recently, 1 on 9/17 and 1 on 9/18 and
never received a response from the newsgroup folks, but I
receivd 22 VIRUS INFECTED EMAILS from posting my questions
to your website.
What's up the with that??

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

Ann,

The people who propagate these virus-infected emails are known to "harvest"
addresses from news groups and other sources. You are not alone - my email
account, which is rarely over 60 per cent of capacity, was maxed out this
morning because of these. Since your anti-virus software caught these
emails, just keep doing what you are doing with regard to keeping your
security protection up-to-date and delete these emails.

 

[Jim/Chris]

So did I. I will never put a real email address again.
Some irresponsable people ruin it for the rest
Have a nice day

Jim

 

[Guest]

The same garbage happened to me just now. The worst part
is that whomever is doing this is using my email address
to send mail to random people.
It's very annoying

 

[Steve Schapel]

Jim,

"Irresponsible"? What a nice guy you are! Actually it is either
criminal or psychopathic or both! I have heard that my email provider
is currently fielding emails infected with the W32.Swen (Gibe-F) worm
at the rate of *20 per second*! As they've all got an .exe file
attached, this is huge bandwidth abuse. And this is a small private
email server... just imagine what some of the big commercial ISPs are
handling!

- Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP

 

[Van T. Dinh]

Your computer is infected and the virus is sending e-mails out from your
computer.

You need to clean it from your computer.

 

[Charlie]

Your computer is infected and the virus is sending e-mails out from your
computer.

You need to clean it from your computer.

You can't reach that conclusion from the information that's been
posted!

 

[Van T. Dinh]

Ann wrote that others receiving virus e-mail sent from her e-mail address.

What do you think the reasonable deduction from that?

 

[Charlie]

Ann wrote that others receiving virus e-mail sent from her e-mail address.

What do you think the reasonable deduction from that?

The same deduction that the experts have posted on many web sites....
that the addresses on the returns have been faked by the virus,
selecting addresses at random from the address book of the infected
user. This adds additional junk mail, since unsophisticated users see
someone's e-mail address that they recognize, and send them another
email complaining about the virus.

 

[Van T. Dinh]

It may so but I got a number of virus e-mails that come from people (I meant
the "From:" field has their e-mail addresses) I know and they have been
infected when I asked.