Re: Virus or Spam?

Thanks Rich, but let me add one more thing...

When I look at the email address that supposedly sent the message, it isn't
a valid address on my domain. It has my domain as the dot com part, but the
user name is completely bogus.

Thanks.

"Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:nq6s52p2j8233hcrclgvd2aof9c31j234r@xxxxxxxxxx
"Scott M." <s-mar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But, I'm getting a lot of these messages. So, wouldn't that make you think
that there is a lot of spam being sent to others with my address forged as
the sender? And if so, wouldn't that make you think that there is
something
on my system that is causing all this mail to be sent in the first place?

No. It should make you think of the people you've corresponded with
that may have infected machines. Or the people that have received
messages fowarded to them by people that you have some sort of
interaction with and *they* have infected machines. Or it could be
that you leave your real e-mail address in public places on the
internet.

There are lots of ways your e-mail address can be spread around.

Looking for problems on your own network isn't a bad idea, but if you
have an e-mail AV scanner, desktop AV scanners, server AV scanners,
and you don't allow your users to use their personal ISP mail accounts
(shutting off access, at the firewall, to port 25 from all addresses
except your Exchange server), and blocing access to major web-mail
providers (you'll never find all of them) you should be reasonably
confident that your network isn't the source of the problem.

--
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
Don't send mail to this address mailto:h.pott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Or to these, either: mailto:h.pott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailto:melvin.mcphucknuckle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailto:melvin.mcphucknuckle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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