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Email users are
concerned that they are doing something wrong, think that their computer must have contracted a virus or worm.
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"I
get quite a lot of virus notification to me stating that email virus was found
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Answer... Many email users become concerned that they are doing something wrong and think that these messages mean that their computer must have contracted a virus or worm. The bad news is that the majority of today's email viruses and worms, etc., is randomly send from infected systems to virtually everyone in the infected computer's address book with a 'spoofed' return address--due to "spoofing, phising, email hijacked, spam zombies, spambot, etc.". The good news is that your computer is not infected and your anti-virus, firewall, anti-spam, etc., is working fine. Therefore, the source of these messages is usually due to hundreds of millions of other computers that are connected to the Internet and have been "spoofed, phising, hijacked, zombie spambot, etc," and that nipping the cause of these problem (viruses) at source is most unlikely. |
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THEREFORE, the more people (friends) having your email address in their address book, list, etc,--you are more "opened" to these "notification" message and in fact it (notification) will continue to increased in time. Simply look at it as a service provide by your ISP or anti-spam companies that scan and remove malicious code, virus, worms, etc., from infected messages and notifying you every time it is being does on your behalf--due to "spoofing, phising, email hijacked, spam zombie, spambot, etc." regardless of whether they were sent by you or not. Otherwise, if they (ISP or anti-spam companies) were not doing this, you would be on your own to detect and remove these messages before you inadvertently opened one of the infected attachments accompanied and infect your computer. In other words, you should be giving your ISP or anti-spam companies a "thumbs up!" for providing this important and desirable protection that protect you from all those malicious messages being returned to you.
A.
Email can be spoofed by tweaking the settings
on
standard email client like; Eudora, Outlook Express,
etc., and sending
spoofed email by inserting someone
else
email address into the
Mail FROM:
or
REPLY TO:
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