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Matthias Mansfeld <[log in to unmask]>
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On 9 Sep 2003 at 10:46, Werner Engelmaier wrote:

> Hi,
> Are you all getting all these "failure notice", "Returned mail",
> "Undeliverable message returned to sender", etc. about e-mails I have
> never sent to addresses I have never heard of? This started about 4 or
> 5 days ago.

Me too. I was in vacation and all my computers were switched off. I
had about 20 of these messages in my inbox after my vacation.

Which are the subjects of the messages you are supposed to have sent?

Might have two reasons:
a) your computer may be infected with a virus (most probably SOBIG in
the last few days). Easily to check out.

b) Somebody else who has your address in his Outlook address book
(might be nearly any TN subscriber) is infected. SOBIG and similar
viruses tend to use these addresses not only for the receiver, but
also for spoofing the sender and return-path adresses (to which these
failure notices etc.would normally go).

Regards
Matthias Mansfeld

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