Antivirus Software

[Stephen Schroder]

What you described is exactly what is happening here. I appreciate the 
information.

Paul Mackinney wrote:

>Steve,
>
>To anticipate just a little. For the past month I've been getting
>upwards of 2 to 20 emails a day from my ISP and other mail system
>administrators informing me that "messages I've sent" have "infected
>attachments", typically named "application.pif" or similar.
>
>I don't have a virus and I haven't sent these messages. Someone else who
>runs Windows and had my email address on their system DID have the
>W32Blaster or W32SoBig worm, and thus my email address is being used as
>the return address for thousands of infected email messages. There's
>nothing I can do about it except to filter the virus warning messages
>and to feel just that much more superior to everyone running Windows.
>
>If this is anything like what you're experiencing, use Google to search
>for "W32SoBig" and learn more.
>
>BTW: Rick is quite right to ask you for details. This (and the fact that
>Linux viruses are essentially unheard of) is why you haven't received a
>more helpful response yet. 
>
>Regards, PM
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