i just got an email from wetwiredatgmail.com with the subject "the file"

zonealarm screened it as a virus.

might wanna scan your computers just to be safe.

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you do realise that 99.9999999999999999999999999% of viruses you get 'from' people dont actually mean their computer is infected at all?

Most cases a virus will infect somebodys machine (like yours) and steal all the addresses out of the address book and then send more viruses off from those addresses but from your pc.

hmm interesting considering I haven't used that email for like a week, I'll scan my machine when I get home though

you do realise that 99.9999999999999999999999999% of viruses you get 'from' people dont actually mean their computer is infected at all?

Most cases a virus will infect somebodys machine (like yours) and steal all the addresses out of the address book and then send more viruses off from those addresses but from your pc.

True .dat!

zing!

plus... how is a virus going to get sent out via gmail? don't they normally use outlook/outlook express ?

Yeh I had a friend tell me the same thing once, in a "OHHH I'M SO SMART I GET TO INFORM YOU ABOUT YOUR VIRUS" type manner, then I educated him and he still didn't believe me..

So you get a 'virus' and decide to spam us?

Great

It's the virus.

There are usually 2 possibilities with apparent email spam from friends:

1. Friend A's machine is compromised by a virus/worm and is sending out spam from Friend A's own email address.

2. Friend B has Friend A's email address in his/her address-book. Friend B's machine gets compromised and sends out spam to everyone pretending to be from Friend A. People mistakenly think Friend A is sending out the spam.

I usually find the latter to be the most common case. Your mileage may vary.

i got one too

plus... how is a virus going to get sent out via gmail? don't they normally use outlook/outlook express ?

um.. outlook express can spoof an email address. ie, send from email...

well I did a thorough scan overnight and I've got nothing, so it must be coming from someone who has my email in their address book

If you check the headers of the email, you can get their IP address, but that probably won't be much help.

um.. outlook express can spoof an email address. ie, send from email...

that was my point. meaning it's not really from his gmail account.

I send my gmail through outlook though? I haven't been to their website since I opened the account