Re: Do I Have A Virus?

From: Sarah (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:50:03 -0800

Lanny Bender writes:
>-----Original Message-----
>I received a msg from AOL Postmaster telling me that my
Email was being
>returned to me. The Email was addressed to
ancer@aol.com which wasn't in
>AOL's Mailbox database. BTW, I don't have that address
in my address book
>either.
>
>I've run the latest free AVG (6.0.615), which didn't
find a virus. I also
>went to Trend Micro's website and ran "Housecall", which
didn't identify any
>viruses on my PC.
>
>The AOL Email, ostensibly from me, had the
Subject: "does it belong to you?"
>It also listed the date I supposedly sent the msg as
being: "Date: Sun, 7
>Mar 2004 22:33:07 -0600." Note that the GMT identifier
is "-0600", while
>I'm sending from "-0800."
>
>My questions are:
>1. Do I have a Virus that's not being detected?
>2. If so, how do I get rid of it?
>3. Is someone else sending these Emails and spoofing my
address?
>
>Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on my
dilemma.
>

     At this point there isn't anything you can do to get
rid of it, your e-mail address is out there (whether it
was initially randomly spit out by a spammer, or
harvested from an infected machine which had your e-mail
address in its address book). In either case, its an
impersonal process, not so much "someone" as "some
program", if that's any consolation. If you begin getting
a flood of these ersatz "returned mails" you may wish to
use mail filters, which allow you to pre-select mail to
ignore. Veronica Loell has lots of good information on
that process.

-Sarah
This message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons.

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