I have also received this same message, but from a college. The IT guy there sent a follow-up email urging everyone to disregard and trash the original.
Steve On Jul 27, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Jeff @ SLYN Systems wrote: > Anne, > I received the EXACT same message with the word "juno.com" inserted > where you wrote "aye.net". > The attachment on the one to me was most certainly a virus.? No > question. > It came with the subject line "Mail System Error - Returned Mail". > Regards, > > Jeff Slyn, Owner > SLYN Systems & Peripherals > (502) 426-5469 > serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! > ? > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:23:55 -0400 Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> > writes: > > 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>
