LukeGSi
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Registered: 9th Dec 03
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I keep getting notification failure things for emails i havent sent....is someone else using my hotmail or are they virus/spam shite??
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Shane
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Registered: 10th Jan 04
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usally a virus, u got and up2date norton??
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modded_corsa
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Registered: 9th May 03
Location: Middlesbrough
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i also keep getting these....particuly from yahoo.com and aol.com email address's
i think its a way of gettin you to click the attachment wot u are supposed to of sent and then in that attachment there is a virus 
simply delete
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LukeGSi
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quote:
Originally posted by netrix
usally a virus, u got and up2date norton??
ive got adaware, its not really a problem as i just delete them, i very rarely send emails from that account either!! Thanks guys
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Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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It's most likely not you who has the virus, it'll be someone else who has that email-address in their contacts-list.
Basically, most viruses like this, when they infect a machine, harvest ALL email-addresses from contacts lists and webcache. They then pick two of them at random, mark one as the "Send-To" address, and spoof the "From" field as being from the other address. Hence, when the email hits a mailserver with virus-checking on, it bounces the email back to the spoofed "From" address, rather than to the virus-infected machine (hence the person who has the virus never knows, unless they check for viruses - most viruses of this kind use their own SMTP server-program, installed secretly on your machine, to send the emails out without you knowing).
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