Debbie,
The reason they bounce back when you "reply" is that the virus has placed a
_ (underscore) in front of their return address.
Here's info I received from Andrew Billinghurst at Rootsweb:
Underscored - email address is when you are seeing a response from
the person's mail box, and you will see a subject line
Non-underscored - when the email address has come from a web page and
this page is in the person's browser cache. Obviously this would
also explain the lack of subject line.
The oddity here is that I see the underscore but no address line ... it
always comes as "re:" and nothing else. Few, if any, of the infected
emails are coming from someone on one of my mail lists. And they seem to be
people that I don't remember ever emailing so don't know why I'd be in
their address book.
I'm to the point now of blocking some of these people from emailing me
since I keep getting repeated non-messages with viruses "embedded."
Linda
At 10:03 AM 11/27/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Linda:
I have tried a couple of times to respond to the email address given in
the message, but it bounces back to me as undeliverable.
Don't think it is coming from the website. These emails usually start
from someone's address book on their computer email program.
Debbie
County Coordinator
Pierce County WIGenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Schwartz
To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 7:28 AM
Subject: [WIGEN-L] This week's virus
Is anyone else being bombarded by the new Badtrans-B virus this week?
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html
It's getting so I hate to check my mail - there's several new messages
with
viruses every time. Because there's no subject line, it appears it's
picking up my email address from my web sites.
Does it do any good to notify the people whose computer's are sending them?
Linda
Dunn & Douglas Co
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