Probable Virus?

[Cooter]

Over the past few weeks I've received several e-mails referring to "mail
failure" or "undelivered mail". The address is always a person or place that
I've never sent mail to. They (as expected) always have an attachment, which
I DO NOT open. Is anyone else running into this? And which virus or whatever
is being delivered?

Thanks,
Cooter

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Cooter,

It happens because someone who is infected is sending out the viruses
willy-nilly, and the bug is using your email address in the "from" field
(obviously to avoid detection of the real source). This technique is used by
many of the current horde of bugs out there, netsky in particular, and you
are simply the "victim" of the reject notices. I set up some keyword filters
to simply delete them upon receipt, as I get several hundred a day now, you
may want to do the same.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Over the past few weeks I've received several e-mails referring to
"mail failure" or "undelivered mail". The address is always a person
or place that I've never sent mail to. They (as expected) always have
an attachment, which I DO NOT open. Is anyone else running into this?
And which virus or whatever is being delivered?

Thanks,
Cooter

Cooter

This is typical for many current viruses making the rounds. Someone with
your email address in their address book gets the virus and it sends a copy
of itself out to other people using a random address (yours) from that
persons address book. You get the results of these emails since it is using
your address.

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User

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[PopRivet]

I always find it interesting when people get
multi-hundreds of spams a day and continue to work
around it. Personally, I can't abide by it, and I'd
rather change my username every year or so, if
necessary, to start with another clean slate. The only
account I let spam pile up in is one I use for
signups, etc., and where I don't care about spam 'cause
I never look at it.
I'm not saying they shouldn't continue to work
around all the spam, in fact, it's fun to do when you
want to play with filters, etc., and you know how to
keep it manageable anyway. Just saying it's
interesting.