on 11/9/04 6:59 PM, Eric D at hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Can you please send me a copy of said "spammer/spoofer" virus? > > I haven't read the first few messages of this thread yet but it sounds like > a typical spammer/virus on that's operating on ANOTHER computer. What > happens is that your e-mail address is used as a fake "From" address by > either a spammer or by a virus that has infected a WINDOWS user's computer > (NOT Macintosh... it'd be neat if it was a Mac though) and is sending out > e-mails that get bounced. And, when they get bounced they are sent to the > from/reply-to address which is your address. > > I have addressed this before on this mailing list as have others and am > feeling like a bit of a broken record. To date NO computer viruses (NOT > viri) are known to on Mac OS X. > > Eric. > Eric, I don't get a lot of these, but here is the front portion of a recent strange, very long message that supposedly "bounced" back to me but I didn't send it: It came from: <MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject was: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at smtp4.tidc.telus.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <harveym@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. 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