Windows virus lately?

[listas at lozano.eti.br]

Hi,

> Yesterday at school the support people mentioned that a new virus had crashed 
> their mail server. Then my employer said she had received numerous virus 
> infected emails last night. Last night and today I've been getting bounces, 
> some of which said "hey this message YOU sent has a virus in it", and all of 
> which had an attachment of some kind (probably the aforementioned virus).
> 
> However, I have been using Linux almost exclusively for the past 2 weeks and 
> the odd time I have booted to Win2k, I have not sent or received email.

It's a common practice by spammers to fake a from: from a valid mailbox.
Usually they get these addresses from web pages and public mailing lists like
this one. :-( Viruses should also do this.

[]s, Fernando Lozano