On Jun 12, 2006, at 12:59 PM, JJ fretted: > Ok. here's the deal. > > Apparently there is a "worm" that is targeting Yahoo email. > > Well, I got the email... and opened it.... but did NOT click on > any links.... > > Sure enough.... it harvested my yahoo email addy's and sent it on > to those folks. > > How do I know? Well, I got several mailer daemon's... and sure > enough... it was "from" me.... <sigh>
I did a bit of checking, and all the information I have found about this Yamanner worm is that it only affects Windows, so it's unlikely your Mac was affected. I wouldn't worry too much about the bounced emails. One of the techniques used by spammers is to send mail marked with real return addresses harvested from who knows where. I get many of these every day, and I just trash them. If you get any spam, then your address is in some spammer's database and she can use your address as the return address any time she wants to. If the address to which she sends the message is bad, or the site's anti-virus software catches it, then you're the one who gets the bounce. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | 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>
