Quoting Antonio Aparicio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think what happens is your email address gets picked up somewhere on > the net and inserted into a spam/virus email as if it were sent by you > which it is not. You then get a virus alert warning in return from the > recipients system.
I don't think it's right to regard spam and viruses (worms) together here. When the culprit is a virus, it's probably caused by spoofing in a private person's computer. If the origin of the mail is a spam server, it has methods of ensuring this sort of thing doesn't occur. And besides; spam registers contain so many addresses that the chance of putting the same address in both FROM: and TO: fields is closer to zero than the shape of a donut. One interesting thing, though, is that some of the virii from last summer was constructed to report email addresses from the infected computer to known email collectors. It is suspected that the virus makers earned some money for the spammer companies that way. Of course nothing can be proven, but spammers know that the value of their service is directly dependent on the number of addresses they can distribute to... > Alternatively, you machine may be infected and be sending out viruses > withuot you or your anti-virus software being aware. Possible, but most unlikely since Malcolm told us his AV is up to date. > I would imagine it is probably the first scenario, and there is nothing > you can do about it. Except perhaps steer clear of porno sites if you > visit them as they are some of the prime culprits. Well that's one piece of information more than I actually needed... Jostein ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
