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[cellio]

That's slimy. Somebody attempted to send me a virus disguised as bounced mail from my postmaster. On the one hand, it's less effective than the ones claiming to be updates for virus software, because fewer people know what to do with postmaster messages and most probably just delete them out of hand. On the other hand, it's another evolutionary step among the obnoxious segment of the net population, and that can't be good.

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[goljerp]

I think that's one of Klez's dirty tricks. It's got a nice little handful of them, including forging the 'from' of the E-mails to someone else in the infected person's address book (or whatever) so that a third person, rather than the infected one, gets E-mails notifying them that they're infected...

I use a Mac, so this is all rather academic for me...

[cellio]

I use a Mac, so this is all rather academic for me...

And I read email with a text-based mailer (pine) on a Unix box, so this is purely of academic interest for me too. (And my provider recently started running virus scans on all incoming mail, for their customers who don't read it on the Unix machine, so I didn't actually get the sucker anyway.)

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

I've been getting these for a month or two now (the perils of being a Kingdom Officer, even a minor one - I'm apparently in a lot of address books.) I suspect this is more likely a case of Klez forging your address as the return address, which means the bounce goes to your postmaster - which assumes it's a legitimate bounce.

Unfortunately, unless you can figure out who would have both you and the apparent victim in their address book, there's not much you can do with it.