Emails with virus

pieter1602 · 8 Mar 2004, 05:50 AM

Hoi
Two times a day I get an email that an email to me is rejected because of a virus.
That good, and i think no problem,What i dont understand is that it are email from adresses i have never seen,and i dont no the adresses

can some one explane this to me.Why are they sending me emails.(infected)
Thank you .
Pieter

8 Mar 2004, 05:55 AM

Spam virus

, or someone who has both you and the "sender" in his address book got infected with a virus. The virus sent you the infected message with forged headers.

pieter1602 · 8 Mar 2004, 06:12 AM

Thank you Daniel.
Do you think there is something i can do about this.

Pieter

kander · 8 Mar 2004, 06:21 AM

Not much you can do. Perhaps set up a filter to direct mails from postmaster@FM and subject 'An infected file has been rejected' to go into a seperate folder so they won't bother you as much?

--K

pieter1602 · 8 Mar 2004, 06:51 AM

Thank you Kander
Its only 2 mails a day, so i keep them in my normal folder,so it is easier to see the mails people are sending to me.

Pieter

8 Mar 2004, 05:50 AM	#1
pieter1602 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 125	Emails with virus Hoi Two times a day I get an email that an email to me is rejected because of a virus. That good, and i think no problem,What i dont understand is that it are email from adresses i have never seen,and i dont no the adresses can some one explane this to me.Why are they sending me emails.(infected) Thank you . Pieter

8 Mar 2004, 05:55 AM	#2
Daniel S Guest Posts: n/a	Spam virus , or someone who has both you and the "sender" in his address book got infected with a virus. The virus sent you the infected message with forged headers.

8 Mar 2004, 06:12 AM	#3
pieter1602 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 125	Thank you Daniel. Do you think there is something i can do about this. Pieter

8 Mar 2004, 06:21 AM	#4
kander The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,112	Not much you can do. Perhaps set up a filter to direct mails from postmaster@FM and subject 'An infected file has been rejected' to go into a seperate folder so they won't bother you as much? --K

8 Mar 2004, 06:51 AM	#5
pieter1602 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 125	Thank you Kander Its only 2 mails a day, so i keep them in my normal folder,so it is easier to see the mails people are sending to me. Pieter