worm in address book?

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Sue L

People in my address book are getting virus-laden
messages from each other (that they haven't sent).It
seems like I must have a worm, but I have done an update
and full system scan and nothing shows up. Is there
something else I should be doing?
 
Not likely then. Virusses can take random addresses from any file that could
contain e-mail addreses. It could be very well be a mail to one of your
friends that has been forwarded many many times already and has been
harvested by a virus. The original source is almost impossible to trace
then. All you can do is have your friends scan on virusses as well to make
sure no-one is infected.

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Thanks for relieving me of all that guilt.
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Not likely then. Virusses can take random addresses from any file that could
contain e-mail addreses. It could be very well be a mail to one of your
friends that has been forwarded many many times already and has been
harvested by a virus. The original source is almost impossible to trace
then. All you can do is have your friends scan on virusses as well to make
sure no-one is infected.

--
Roady [MVP] www.sparnaaij.net
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office related News
Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...

Tips of the month:
-Setting Permissions on a Mailbox
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

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