email virus

[shaoji]

Hi,
I have two questions.
First how to change font size in IE?
Second, I am using outlook. Everyday i click send/receive, I got some email with "Delivery(my email address)...." with size 2k or 3k and an attachment, and mcafee virusscan will give the message saying that there is a virus.
I use mcafee virusscan and stingers and even spybot, but when i scan my pc, there is no affected files.

So 1. What is the problem? Is there any virus in my PC? If I get some bunced back email saying that the email from my address containing some virus but I have not sent such email, does that mean that email is really from my PC?

2. How to solve this problem?

Thanks for your help.

Shaoji

 

[longlivegoku]

To change the font size in IE go to View>>Text size and choose. As for the email someone is spoofing your email address and sending these out. Nothing that you did. I have seen it a lot with our users. I don't know of a way to keep this from happening...someone else know? I don't think it's possible to stop the spoofing. We stopped allowing attatchments through for the most part and that helped some at least.

Ed

 

[Wishdiak]

So 1. What is the problem? Is there any virus in my PC? If I get some bunced back email saying that the email from my address containing some virus but I have not sent such email, does that mean that email is really from my PC?

The way that smtp works, anyone on earth can send emai from an arbitrary email address, as long as the smtp server accepts the connection.

In otherwords, someone could be sending email that appears to originate from your address. If the message is undeliverable for any reason, it will be returned to sender, which in this case will be you.

It's very much like the return addresses on snail mail. Nothing says that you have to put your own return address on paper mail that you send out.

Wishdiak

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[longlivegoku]

I should have clarified. We stopped allowing attatchments and that helped with our users not seeing SAV pop up every time they got one of these. They still receive just as many emails like you are getting.

 

[shaoji]

Thank you Ed and Wishdiak both for your help.
Shaoji