Peter, thanks for your reassuring comments. I will, however, be spooked if someone else gets a bogus email from me.
Regards, Kevin On 22/08/12 9:57 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > On 22/08/2012, at 5:35 AM, Kevin Lock <kal...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> I have received several emails supposedly from people in my address >> book. Their name appears in the header, but the email address is not >> theirs. The senders do not know each other. >> >> As far as I know it is only me receiving these emails. It would seem >> that I am the common denominator. >> >> a sample..... >> On 8/08/12 1:15 AM, Paul xxxxx schroederhe...@yahoo.de >>> http://frontlines.org/images/ >>> 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM >>> >> Any ideas for me on this one? > > If the emails are not a form of advertising (ie, SPAM), then you're probably > simply the victim of a virus running on the computer of someone you may have > never even met. This type of virus typically infects a Windows computer at > some point, usually through an email attachment, and starts sending random > emails to random email addresses in the user's address book, with a copy of > itself as an attachment, thereby spreading the problem. The more vicious ones > will choose one address for the "To" address and another for the "From" > address, so it becomes impossible to determine from where the original > behaviour started. In your case it simply means that someone you have sent an > email to at some point has become infected with one of these things. > > There's not much you can do about these unfortunately except ignore them. Try > to determine if there's any consistency about them which you can filter out > by means of a Rule so you move them out of your Inbox if possible, but under > no circumstances should you reply to any of them. If the emails are truly > random your reply will be pointless, and if they are malicious in any way you > are simply confirming your existence on the Net and their frequency will > increase. > > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
