Rob,
There is a new virus  (Klez) in the wild that can do E-mail spoofing.
Someone you know that has your address in their address book in outlook may
be infected. Your computer may be as well as a result.

>From Symantec's web site
"Some variants of this worm use a technique known as "spoofing." If it does
this, it chooses at random an address that it finds on an infected computer
as the "From:" address that it uses when it performs its mass-mailing
routine. Numerous cases have been reported in which users of uninfected
computers receive complaints that they have sent an infected message to
someone else.

For example, Linda Anderson is using a computer that is infected with
W32.Klez.E@mm; Linda is not using a antivirus program or does not have
current virus definitions. When W32.Klez.gen@mm performs its emailing
routine, it finds the email address of Harold Logan. It inserts Harold's
email address into the "From:" line of an infected email that it then sends
to Janet Bishop. Janet then contacts Harold and complains that he sent her
infected email, but when Harold scans his computer, Norton AntiVirus does
not find anything--as would be expected--because his computer is not
infected."

Nerd From Hell

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:40 PM
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> Subject: Someone is impersonating me
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> Apparently someone is attemting to impersonate me by forging 
> my header.
> rob
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