Possible e-mail virus: Undeliverable mail "terms of use

OdinsDream · Veteran Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 1057

Alright, I use KMail, I've had linux running for some time now. I'm pretty sure I don't have a virus, as I'm not sure how that could have happened.

Anyway, I'm getting mails back from "postmaster" at various places, as if I sent an email, and it was undeliverable.

Can I somehow check to see if this is just a spoof mail, or if my computer actually did try to send email, and it did indeed get bounced back.

Each email says:

magoo · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject:

it is possible that its a virus running on someone elses computer sending mail with your email address entered as the sender. this has happened to me by friends with my email address in their virus infected windows address book.

check over all the headers in the emails. i was able to determine by ip who exactly was sending the email in the first place. it may not pin point it exactly, but should at least verify its not your system sending the mail.

and if it turns out to be somone you know, go fix their problem by installing gentoo

otherwise you're out of luck because anyone can send email with your address as the From: (and in this case, have it bounce back to you, which is a good thing)

hope this helps a bit
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magoo