Lewis,

These messages are almost definitely not from your machine at all.
What happens is a virus gets on someone elses machine.  That virus
then pulls two names at random from that person's address book.  It
inserts one as the sender and one as the recipient and then sends
itself out.  So, it's not you who has the virus, rather it's someone
who has you in their address book.

Hope that clears things up :)


Tony Mayer




>I need help in understanding strange messages about viruses I'm
>getting from my Juno e-mail service.  I have two e-mail accounts
>with Juno and in one of them, and only one, almost daily I receive
>one or more messages that mail that I've sent to someone was
>undeliverable.  The strange thing is that in every case I don't know
>the addressee and I've not addressed any mail to that person.
>Additionally, none of the names are in my address book.  More often
>than not, the reason that the mail was undeliverable was that it
>contained a virus and was rejected by the addressee's mail server.
>The virus, sometimes named and sometimes not, is something like
>"Mytob" (or close to that).  My computer is protected with
>anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-adware software.  This has been
>going on for a long time, but other than the receipt of these
>strange messages everything seems perfectly normal.  I'd be most
>interested in understanding what's going on here and, in particular,
>how can I stop this
>  from happening.
>Lewis Emerson

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