Trevor, This is most likely either bagel or mydoom viruses. If you've received mail with the subject 'Hi' then it's bagel. That virus does use random email addresses when it resends, which may be your address sent from someone elses (windows) system. http://www.nod32.com/msgs/baglea.htm http://www.nod32.com/msgs/mydooma.htm Cheers, Al On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Trevor Smith wrote: >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. > >My theory is that I probably did not send anyone any viruses but that the >virus du jour actually steals addresses from people's address books and sends >itself using those addresses as its "to" address. This theory is supported by >the fact that I have received some dubious looking messages from people who >have some "six degrees" sort of connections to me, but whom I have never >corresponded with (so they might have been in other people's address >books...). These messages I've received have had attachments that didn't look >right so I deleted them as usual. >
