email from ME? 1

[mimitabby]

I do a lot of email, and have installed on my home computer a "mailwasher"
which checks my mail on the server, and filters it. I saw a piece of mail
from "Postmaster" which I opened in mailwasher, and I could see that
there were 3 attachments, a subject that had nothing to do with me,
the addressee happened to be someone I knew but have never written to
(daughter of a friend) but what was strange was the SENDER was my email address.

I sent it to the abuse department of my ISP, and 2 hours later I get this thundering email from the supervisor of their department.
"You have a serious virus, it just about took down my computer!" Please take appropriate steps, or we will cancel your account. So I downloaded Norton, got
the daily updates, and took an hour scanning my 83,000 files to find NOTHING.
I called the guy and told him that I had done what he said but was virus free.
He said "I KNOW it's coming fromyour computer because it not only has
your email address, it has your IP address too." He also said he'd gotten
two other complaints about MY email address that day.
I wrote to several email friends and none of them had ever received anything
suspicious from me.
What gives?
Does anyone have any idea what this is?
MImi

 

[joegz]

It is probably the KLEZ virus but your ISP should no better than to say it was from you without doing further research into the matter (probably some novice you were speaking with that did not know better). The KLEZ virus can randomly enter someone else's address that it picked up from an address book from another computer. So with this virus it is possible for an e-mail to say it was from you when you were not the author or the machine infected.

If you got NAV on your machine and your definitions are current and did a complete scan then your machine is safe and your ISP should leave you alone.

However someone who has your address in their address book is probably infected with the virus and is generating that e-mail.

joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[mimitabby]

thanks for the sanity check!