On Mon, 9 May 2005, Robin Laing wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 14:13 -0600, Travis Rousseau wrote:
Any ideas here?
It could have been a program on another computer just using your email address.
Happens to me from time to time. A lot of worms do that to try to hide where they are coming from. It's really annoying - especially when remote servers are configured to return messages that they found to contain a virus/worm.
Ditto,
It is a major headache here at work. It seems that allot of outlook users have been hit. I get 10 to 12 a day via work related email addresses. Thank you junk filters.
Move them to a junk folder and then delete the "bad" ones.
Our IS department is not getting much success in getting rid of the problem.
Spamassassin and the virus bogus virus-warning ruleset found here will catch most of these bounce messages:
http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/sa.php
-psi
