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Hotmail and Viruses?

Okay, I open my inbox and get this message:

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From : System Administrator <[email protected]>
Sent : Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:00 AM
To : boilermaker's [email protected]
Subject : Undeliverable: Re: Thanks!

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Hotmail has permanently blocked the following potentially unsafe attachment(s): message_part2.pif (23 KB) More Info...

Your message

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Thanks!
Sent: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:56:57 -0500

did not reach the following recipient(s):

[email protected] on Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:00:01 -0500
The recipient name is not recognized
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a= ;p=aero
plastics;l=SERVER104031414591N0LDH0Z
MSEXCH:IMS:Aero Plastics:xxxxxxxx:SERVER1 0 (000C05A6) Unknown
Recipient

</font>

What gives? My laptop was shut off and in my computer bag at the time/date stamp mentioned, and the desktop was shut off.

Your address is probably being spoofed.

Likely nothing you did. A virus/worm harvested your address from someone else's address book.

Your address is being faked as a from address on a virus mailing. No huge deal at all, the common ones in the last few weeks (netsky and the others) function that way. It was picked up from the mailbox or the address book in an infected machine.

Thanks for the replies. I thought it was happening.