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RE: Re[2]: need help to interpret this



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I spent hours working with bellsouth.net and the eventual answer was...

"your address may have been cloned...the problem will probably go away
in a week or so".

4 weeks later I am still getting bounced mail I didn't send.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 3:55 PM
To: Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; DH
Subject: Re[2]: need help to interpret this

I get a handful a day on two different ISPs and they both look like
someone on the O-list might have had their address book involved.


Best regards,
  Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx


Sunday, February 8, 2004, 2:48:59 PM, you wrote:

>> ir appears that my machine is sending viruses?

D> Probably not. I've been getting the same thing. 

D> Somebody on this list has it. The thing scanned his hard drive for
every
D> email address it could find. Then it spoofed the return addresses,
D> sending the virus apparently FROM every address TO every address. 100
addresses -->> 100*100 = 10000 messages. What a waste of bandwidth.




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