Someone is apparently sending out a virus
 

...using my ISP provided E-mail address. I have recieved several E-mails in the past couple of days stating that a virus was in the E-mail I sent them. The virus being W32.Sobig.F@mm.

I have not ever sent an E-mail to any of the addresses that claim I sent them an E-mail. What if anything can I do about this??

Probably someone using your email as their return address. I've had that happen before..

Jesus, im so amazed that 90% of the people on this board dont know how viruses work...

Once again:

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=165851

THats what the worm sobig does yo. GEt the worm remover from symantec to see if you got a worm crawling in yo pc

The virus is using your computer to send virus to others.

My computer is not infected.

I confess.

I read your post...so...is the bottom line that I cannot do anything about it?

If you keep getting a shitload, just filter out the messages based on the subject line, that is basically all you can do.

So people will be getting E-mails that contain a virus that they think is from me...and there is no way to prevent this????

heh.

i get hundreds of those per day. returned emails from email gateways - invalid accounts, mailbox full, virus messages telling me my emails were denied, it's sad. i've filtered all i can possibly do without losing possible legit emails :(

Your computer doesnt have to be infected. Any computer that has your email in its address book can be infected. Then it will fake the from email address and try to infect more people.

The majority of the people on the internet are experiencing the same thing, so I wouldn't worry. Eventually people will get their shit patched and it will stop.

that's the sad thing.

"eventually" to get the entire net running windows to patch themselves will take forever.

Well...thanks for the info guys.

Ya, a lot of the people I know won't have a clue what Windows Update even is.