E-Mail I did not send

vanagon40

I got this message on Saturday and again today (I just the discovered the Saturday message):

Subj:

Symantec AVF detected that you sent a message with an unscannable attachment
Date:

6/14/2004 6:42:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:

<Administrator@indywalls.com>
To:

<vanagon45@aol.com>
Sent from the Internet (Details)


Subject of the message: excellent!
Recipient of the message: Bill Pruitt

I never sent a message (much less one with an attachment) to anyone during the past three days. Nor is there a record of the sent message in my sent mail box.

Any clues? :confused2

Gobbles

Virus....

Cyclonite

Not necessarily. Someone elses computer could have a virus and be using your email address as the sender. Any returned email will be sent to you. We've got a few people around the office that have the same problem. Of course, they give their work email address out for personal use, so they have to live with it.

TheBaron

dont open anything in the message you received. update your antivirus definitions and run a full system scan, just to be safe

keto

I get tons of those. Someone who I have communicated with at some point in the past now has a virus. The virus looks thru either their history/saved emails OR their address book, sees my email addy and spoofs it to send out new viruseseses to other people. The new recipient's anti-virus detects and rejects the email and sends out 'advice' to the spoofee - in this case, me. So I get an email saying I've sent a virus out, when in fact I haven't.

I'd bet real money that this is what's happening to you, vanagon45. AFAIK, there's no way to stop it from happening.

TheBaron

add similar mails to your junk filter