Quite likely a virus. There have been a lot of this style recently, though I've not received this variant that I've noticed (I get a lot).
Feel free to forward it to me if you'd like and I'll look at the attachment. Might be able to tell if it looks similar to other virus attachments I've received. On the how did this happen question. The from address in an email is entirely cosmetic. Pretty much anyone could send you an email and edit the From: to make it look like it was from yourself. As a user, your only real way to test this is to look at the headers for the mail (most mail clients let you do this, though it'll not be obvious) and see which IP addresses were involved. Quite likely you'll be able to tell that the email did not start with an aye.net computer. Hen On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Anne Cartwright wrote: > I received this message, supposedly from my ISP, how did this (whatever > it is) happen? > > > Dear user of aye.net, administration of aye.net would like to inform > you that: > > We have detected that your e-mail account was used to send a huge > amount of spam messages during the recent week. > Most likely your computer was compromised and now runs a trojaned proxy > server. > > We recommend that you follow the instruction in order to keep your > computer safe. > > Best regards, > The aye.net support team. > > I wonder if this isn't a message from some poor soul with a virus in > the attachment (instructions). What do you think? Of course I can > always call aye.net tomorrow . > > Anne Cartwright | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
