returned email

[A. Paul LeBarron II]

Probably somebody had a virus on their PC and they had your email address 
in their address book.  The virus scanned the person's address book for new 
email addresses and found yours.  The virus than sent out email from the 
infected PC with your email address in the "From" field.  This is called 
"email spoofing".  Really not much you can do about it.  I would scan your 
PC for virus using the latest virus definitions.  If no virus is detected 
than you are ok.  You can read more here: 
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.gen@mm.html

At 11:23 AM 12/30/2003, you wrote:
>probably not a Linux question but I would appreciate
>understanding what is happening.  I am receiving two or three emails
>every day that are from email programs informing me *my* email to
>*username at domainname* was undeliverable.  What is confusing me is
>none of these emails were sent by me.  I know none of the intended
>recipients and none of them are in my addressbook. Any input would be
>appreciated.