Hi EP,
This is a problem with the way gateway email scanners handle worms. Worms
these days now pretend to be someone else when they send; gateway email
scanners do not know this and send back the message to the address they
*think* the email came from, which is not actually the originating email
address.
Worms send themselves automatically, and this just means that you are in the
address book of an infected user. The addresses you are getting them from
are most likely not the addresses that they are really from. This is a
method called "spoofing," which means that when User A is infected, and User
B and User C are in User A's address book, the virus that infected User A
will send itself to User B using the name of User C. It is an effective
method, indeed.
You can safely ignore such messages, assuming you keep a good, up-to-date
antivirus program on your machine.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Johnstone-Anderson
Microsoft "MVP" - Windows Security
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