I had the same a while back - returned from addresses from israel. It turned out to be that someone out there, with my email in their outlook address book was infected with the my_doom worm. My machine was clean. Of course, the bounced emails are only the tip of the iceberg - from the isps and organisations with firewalls clever enough to block the message. For every message I received, there would be several other parties who received the worm, with the email purporting to be from me.
Not nice. Jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "QL Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] failure messages > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > > > Anyone know anything about a series of 'mail delivery failure' > > messages from all over the place yesterday and today? They all seem to > > be 42K but I haven't dared view them as my AVG anti-virus reckons > > they're suspicious though doesn't know what they are, so I deleted > > them all. > > Someone has a virus, and it's sending mail out to recipients claiming to > be from other peoples' emails. You're getting the bounces because you're > listed as the sender, even though you're (probably) not. > > Nasty. > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
