Do I have a mailbox virus?

[Chuckracer]

I keep getting "Mail Delivery Failed" notices to email address' I've never heard of.

What is this all about?

[Accept2]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

I get that too alot..............

[Cleveland Metal]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

Sounds like a virus type of thang man...

Often, you may not be sending that email. Your addy may have been on someone elses system that got the virus, and it grabbed yours from the list to use as the "sender" address. But, it could be you sending them also, depending on the virus.

To be safe, definitely run a virus scan with updated software like Nortons antivirus, and also look into the free Spybot and Ad-aware software if you haven't already.

[hippietim]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

if it's email addresses you've never heard of then it is most likely random spam that is attempting to give you a virus. they'll typicall have an attachment that is supposedly the message you sent, and of course opening the attachment is a bad thing. I get these once in a while - just delete them.

[ApeDosMil]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

don't use outlook express, get thunderbird.

www.mozilla.org

[Chuckracer]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

Heh. Two weeks ago I switched over to Mozilla and Thunderbird.
That is the slowest broswer in the world. A couple days ago I dumped them and went back to IE6 and Outlook.
Back to snap-fast loads.

That's ultimatly what I was guessing the deal was...thanks Tim, thanks all!

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

Sometimes it's someone sending SPAM spoofing your emaila ddy, nothing you can really do, except disable any aliases that deliver maila ddress to [email protected] etc.

We get a lot of that, you'd have to look at the headers to know for sure.

Pat

[atomic charvel guy]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

i don't know about your situation chuckles, but sully has an unidentified lip fungus thing going on right now.-lol

[ApeDosMil]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

well... you could still use thunderbird... it doesn't need to exist with mozilla....

outlook is the no. 1 spam/virus host.

[OnlineStageGear]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

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if it's email addresses you've never heard of then it is most likely random spam that is attempting to give you a virus. they'll typicall have an attachment that is supposedly the message you sent, and of course opening the attachment is a bad thing. I get these once in a while - just delete them.

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That's pretty much it. I get about 20 of them a day.

[jazzman]

Re: Do I have a mailbox virus?

Sounds like a virus.