On Sat Aug 23 13:00 -0400, Austin wrote:
> Hey,
> I keep getting these messages from virus scanners on various mail servers 
> all over the world saying that I tried to send a virus infected email 
> through their mail server.  It's the sobig.f virus, which is written in 
> MSVC, and propogates through windows, so I don't see how I could have sent 
> it to anyone, but they attach a copy of it with my return address.
> 
> This makes me very mad.  I don't have a single computer running Windows, 
> and I highly doubt if Balsa can execute MS macros <LOL>.
> I'm proud of the fact that I don't propogate viruses.

Long story short: a SoBig.F infected system will send out emails to
everybody in the address book (it may also scan IE's cache for email
addresses), setting the From: header on the email to other random
addresses on the infected system.  So someone who has you in their
address book is infected.

-- 
Levi Ramsey
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