Anybody else besides me receive a virus in their email today?

Hot mail?? But I don't use Hot mail.

Rick

Rich, learn to read your headers, like this example that just came in tells me COX internet sold to this spammer these addresses:

Return-Path: Received: from billhigs ([201.128.112.110]) by fed1mtai09.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with SMTP id ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:08:05 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Bizul" Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0600 To: snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net, snipped-for-privacy@cox.net Subject: sugper viagrga antarctic Alberta MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL:

Bill, I'm not blaming this group. It was just a simple "heads up" and an inquiry to see if I was the only one who received the virus. I get 'em all the time too, but most of the time I have no clue where the sender got my address. This time is different in that I can pin it down to here, that's all. And mine might not be the only address harvested. So that's why the heads up. That's all there was to it. If I offended you, I apologize.

Rick

Most email viruses get their addresses from the infected machines. All it means if you get sent a virus, or notified that you sent one is that someone who has your address also has a virus.

I get them all the time, anymore I don't even worry about it. I just keep good defenses on my computer. The other day I got a message saying I sent a virus to snipped-for-privacy@never.heard.of.it.com. All that told me was someone with a virus had my email address and snipped-for-privacy@never.heard.of.it.com in their address book.

Now if you posted you email address here it DID get harvested and you WILL get spam and viruses from infected spammers. The only advice I have don't post your email address to these groups. You WILL get crap sent to you! Some people post throw away hotmail accounts or try and hide their email. dean @ Don'tSpamMe hotmail dot com. Might work. I gave up posting my email addresses to these groups.

Because I never want to be the sender of a virus I quit using Outlook. I know there are ways to protect it, but the scum virus writers are always looking for new ways to use Outlook to spread their filth.

Sorry about your virus, but like the common cold they are a fact of life. Dean

Not me.