On 8/27/03 10:32 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On or near 8/24/03 7:26 PM, Elizabeth Noble at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > observed: > >> The latest nasty invasion via SPAM are LOTS of emails coming to be from >> Yahoo! Groups saying "unable to deliver your message". When I look at these, >> it appears that I have sent dozens of these messages to various strangers >> and porn sites, and the message is bouncing back. I didn't think Macs got >> problems like this. I set up a rule to delete such messages but they come in >> thick and fast. >> Has anyone else had this problem? What else to do? I am trying SpamSieve but >> all I get is the same number of messages but greyed out. I thought they >> were supposed to end up somewhere else! > > If no one else has said this yet, nearly everyone is getting these messages > about bounced mail. The latest virus grabs an address from the infected > computer's address book (always on a Windows machine, since it does not > infect Macs) and uses that as the "From" address when it sends out copies of > itself. I've had mail "returned" from an address I have never used myself, > although it is still valid (on bigfoot.com). There is nothing you can do but > delete these false reports. > > Your Mac is not infected. Thanks. Others have told me the same thing. EN -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
