Same here. (although I am glad I am not as popular as you! 300???!!!) I was getting afraid that some servers would just start blocking my email from this address... but this got to such a dimension that I am sure all sysadmins must know how it works by now.
There was a time I thought I was really somehow infected, but I am offline during weekends and I just get too much warnings from antivirus email filters on Monday. So, people: just get your machine offline for a while if you use Outlook and have this kind of doubt. Have fun, Paulo Gaspar > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: sexta-feira, 27 de Junho de 2003 17:48 > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses > > > That is exactly what happens with this particular worm. If your address > is in the address book of someone who gets infected, not only do *you* > start to receive the messages, messages with forged "from" headers with > your name on them also go out. Then, the volume of messages is made worse > by all of those "helpful" spam filters that catch the fact that the virus > is included, and return a notification to the (forged) sender. > > Obscuring email addresses in the archives would have zero impact on this > particular problem. > > Craig (just cleaned out about 300 of these from this morning's mail) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
