Re: Strange Messages

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

brad mugleston comcast net wrote:
> > From time to time I get these emails.  They appear to be from me 
> (my computer) to me but I don't know why.  There is nothing in 
> the email so I've attached the header.
>
> Any ideas where this is coming from?

Don't trust the sending headers.  You are the victim of one of the
many, many Klez-type viruses that infect Windows machines.  Someone has
you in their address book and they're infected, so their machine sends
email with YOUR address as the sender.  Just delete or filter the
messages...they're crap and there's nothing you can do about it.

Outlook/IE/Windows: The Typhoid Marys of the internet.

> FYI I'm runing RH9.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
> PS have a great new year.

You too, Brad.

> Return-Path: <brad mugleston mail comcast net>
> Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>         by mugleston.mugs.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id 
> j012tiCA001952
>         for <brad localhost>; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:55:44 -0700
> From: brad mugleston mail comcast net
> Message-Id: <200501010255 j012tiCA001952 mugleston mugs net>
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 02:48:46 +0000 (GMT)
> X-Comment: Sending client does not conform to RFC822 minimum 
> requirements
> X-Comment: Date has been added by Maillennium
> Received: from mail.comcast.net [216.148.227.80]
>         by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.5)
>         for brad localhost (single-drop); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 
> 19:55:44 -0700 (MST)
> Received: from host-62-141-200-51.kalisz.mm.pl ([62.141.200.51])
>           by sccrmxc14.comcast.net (sccrmxc14) with SMTP
>           id <20050101024843s1400h0v1ne>; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 
> 02:48:45 +0000
> X-Originating-IP: [62.141.200.51]
> Received: from ellipse.aviastar.net ([216.146.110.45])
>           by genuine.ayna.com
>           (InterMail vK.4.04.00.00 301-580-312 license 9n[2


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