Thanks, Ewan
For some peculiar reason it seems to have stopped again - but I'll take
you up if the problem recurs!
Mary
In message <8E421CF51A5440188D2E614154005B8F@Randan>, Ewan Davis
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>Mary Hawking wrote:
>> I seem to be having a number of this type of message for
>> undeliverable mail, and someone seems to be using my email address.
>> Can anyone advise what - if anything - I need to do?
>> Have I become a bot?
>> TIA
>> MaryH
>
>Somebody with you in their address book has become infected by a virus which
>is trying to reproduce by sending emails from the infected machine which
>appear to be from you. The logic is that if you are in the address book then
>you are likely to be known by others that are also in that address book who
>are then more likely to trusted the infect email than if it appeared to come
>from a stranger. The infected machine is probably cycling through all of the
>addresses using each one in turn as a "spoofed" sender to all the others.
>
>This is probably not a result of you machine being infected and you are
>probably not a bot as I am sure you have up to date anti-malware running on
>your machine. There is little you can do about this although it might be
>possible to identify the real sender from the email headers and alert them
>to the fact they have a problem, you can send me some examples and I can
>have a look if you like.
>
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