NAC: email problem

[Ti Kan]

Andrew Buc writes:
> As I said, NAC, but maybe some net-savvy people have some ideas on this:
> Starting today, I'm getting a lot of emails "bounced back" as undeliverable. I
> put "bounced back" in quotes because I didn't send them in the first place and
> don't recognize the intended recipients.  Any idea what's going on here? As it
> stands, the situation is merely annoying. Could it get worse than annoying? Do
> I have any recourse? Thank you.

Someone who has you in his/her address book probably has a virus
problem.  The virus sends email out from that person's computer
to recipients in that address book, and sets the "From" field to
others from that list too.  Some of the entries in that address
book are probably out of date and email to them would bounce, and they
get returned to you (because the mails were forged as if they were
from you).

-Ti
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