Re: Strange E-Mail WAS: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?

Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Staving Andreas Johansson:
> >Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
> >
> > > The other ploy I've seen in the past two weeks are messages supposedly
> > > from my ISP both at home & at work saying that certain mails couldn't be
> > > delivered and if I want to see them I should go to the inbox - in the
> case
> > > of Freeuk, the address was: freeuk.com/inbox/ray.brown/read.php?
> followed
> > > by a sessionid.
> >
> >I've too received an unusual number of fake "delivery failed" messages
> >recently. I'm starting to fear this account will go the way of my old
> hotmail
> >account ...
>
> Somebody who has your email address stored on his computer has been
> infected with a virus, which has then spoofed your address in the From:
> header. One of the messages it sent with your name on it has bounced.
Sure about that? Real "delivery failed" message don't have suspicious-looking
attachments in my limited experience, so I assumed it was just regular spam
with an original format.

Is there anything one can do to stop it if it actually is real "delivery
failed" msgs?

                                                           Andreas