email virus?

[AJ_77]

Originally Posted by EmilyB

some people have gotten an emai from me, including myself, even thought I do not have their emails on my system.

Apparently someone else had your email address on their system, and now the worm is spoofing your address as the "from".

From the Symantec site:

Attempts to send email messages using its own SMTP engine. The worm looks up the mail server that the recipient uses before sending the email. If it is unsuccessful, it will use the local mail server instead.


The email will have the following characteristics:

From: May be a spoofed from address.

So even though your updated antivirus software may have caught them all, Deb (as mine seems to have), you may still get msgs back from "Mailer-Daemon" and "Mail Subsystem" at other ISPs because they are sending it back to you. Don't sweat it, you're likely fine.

Kind of freaky though... "Hey, I didn't send that! Did I??..."