Hi all, The virus that ran the net last week takes names out of the Outlook address book and "spoofs" return addresses. Given the e-mail protocols, where you are on your honor to fill in the correct return address, there is not way to prevent this. SPAMers use this all the time so they cannot be traced. You can do this yourself by entering a bogus return address in Outlook or other e-mail program. I got hundreds of virus e-mails last week and 20-25 that said they had originated from my computer but I know for a fact it is clean. My address was spoofed from someone else's address book into the return address. I would double check your machine but most likely the e-mails that were returned to you were sent from another machine with you address substituted into the return address field of the e-mail. Hope this helps.
At 06:59 AM 8/23/03 -0800, George Mogiljansky wrote:
I suspect your computer is infected. Get help fast! George
--- Pieter Hoeben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I received a lot of these emails too. But I also > received something that worries me very much. > I received several emails with delivery problems > that had my email address as return address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > They often were reporting viruses too. > But I did not send them any email, they are NOT > in my addressbook, and I even don't use Outlook. > So somebody somewhere uses my [EMAIL PROTECTED] > as 'sent' or 'reply to' address. > > Does anybody know how I could find out who > does this? It causes me a lot of trouble. It may > even > be another company selling the same thing I do. > I just have no idea who. Or is the maybe the > virus software doing that? > > Any idea's somebody? All information is welcome. > > Kind regards, > > Pieter Hoeben
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