It could be on someone's computer who has you in their address book.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Lasker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: On viruses/attachments on museum-l
> I just got the message pasted below and now I'm a bit confused.
> 1--I'm on a Mac so my machine (supposedly) cannot be infected
> 2--I've opened NO attachments
> 3--I sent nothing out with an attachment in recent days and certainly not
to
> this person
> 4--Is [log in to unmask] someone on this list? Because it's not someone
in
> my address book
> 5--I've updated my Virex definitions this week!
>
> Given the above, how would it have accessed my address book? or forged my
> name? Any idea?
>
> > Sender Note - Inbound Virus Found
> >
> > Attention: Virus detection software has found a virus infected message
> > from: <[log in to unmask]> recently routed to our location. The
> > message was dropped and will not be delivered. To help facilitate
> > delivery of your messages to our location please take necessary steps
> > to clean the virus and then resend the message. For details on this
> > infected e-mail see the attached message headers and virus message
> > information.
> > Virus Scanner found the
> > W32/Sobig.f@MM virus
> > in the attached file: your_document.pif
>
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>
> Jill Lasker
> Writer/Editor/Researcher
> Medicine/Bioscience/History
> http://home.earthlink.net/~laskerj/
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