Strange Messages

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at 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
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