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Re: Strange Messages



brad mugleston comcast net wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:


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.



Thanks, I was thinking that but just wantted to make sure that it wasn't something I'd set up as I'd like to get rid of them.

I guess it's kind of nice to know that someone has me in their address book -- I am loved.

Yeah. Unfortunately it's by an idiotic Windows user who doesn't use virus scanning. :-p ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens vitalstream com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "If you can't fix it...duct tape it!" - Tim Allen - ----------------------------------------------------------------------


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