Re: virus detection email. spoofing

From: taff (taff_at_the-valleys.com)
Date: 06/22/04


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:06:22 +0100

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:34:19 -0700, "kris"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
> My Hotmail. address occationaly recieves a returned e-
>mail that says that this is a returned message that had a
>virus laden attachment from an email address i dont
>recognize or isnt in my comtacts list when i perform a
>system scan with norton 2003 it finds no virus or problems
>the returned email says that its the netsky virus iv run
>norton several times to no avail iv run spybot search
>destroy still no malware or viruses on my computer how is
>this possable what can i do to resolve the problem ?

The sender is spoofing your email address and making you appear to be
the sender. Delete and ignore. I am afraid that there is not much that
you can do about it.

Taff.........

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