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Originally posted by Fletch XXX
i get them from people i know almost daily.
ive gotten the same virus from you, slyrj, tdf, shitloads of others from this board.
all spoofed.
i figure its not you guys
hahaha
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Fletch-
More than likely, no one's doing that on purpose and it's not a spammer. It just means the computer of some retard somewhere is infected with a virus and that retard has the email addys of digipimp, you, and others, on his/her computer. The person probably has no clue it's even happening.
For instance, if I'm a complete moron and don't use any AV and then open up an email with a virus, then my computer gets infected. The virus then starts sending itself out, but it probably won't use my name or email address (but it may). It will scan my computer and pull any other email addresses it finds. It will probably get the ones in my email address book, but it might also get addresses from temp internet files in my cache. So, if I had been surfing gfy (or any page) and people had their email addresses listed, and that page was stored in my cache, the virus might pick up the address from there. It can basically grab one from anywhere on my computer, if it's designed to. It will randomly use the names to send to, and to send from. So, people are probably getting them with your name in the "from" field, as well. You may get bounced messages from your email address, that you never even tried to send.
It all depends on how the virus is written and how it's made to send itself out. It sounds like it's probably a gfy/adult person since they have so many gfy email addresses, though. Turn on full headers in your email and you'll probably be able to see the ip they're really coming from, and maybe a domain if you're lucky. I've had dummies in my family I've found, who didn't even know they had a virus.