[BC] is some new virus out there?

[Bruce Doerle]

Donna,

Barry is probably right on there.  I have had this happen to me also.  Some spammer harvests your email and name and sends out a bunch of spam messages using you email and name as the return address, but if you do as Barry says and look closely at the header, it is originating at another IP address than yours. Unfortunately, there is nothing that you can do about it.

Bruce

>>> barry at oldradio.com 11/27/2005 2:23:29 PM >>>
At 12:11 PM 11/27/05, Donna Halper wrote


>I use Netscape, and use Trend Micro for my virus software, but it 
>seems these viruses stay one step ahead of the fixes for them...

         Donna, I would check your headers closely.
         .... what you are reporting might well be
         the effect of someone "stealing" your
         name/address, and sending spam out.
         Then, all the bounces come back and
         hit you ... even though you didn't
         originate them.

         This is because the internet email
         usually returns bounces to the "from"
         rather than the header provided address.
         In turn, this is because some geeks
         prefer to stay anonymous.   An email
         standard that would prevent this is
         not that hard.  They just don't want it.



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