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
