Nigeyboy

Can somebody shed some light on a weird email I got today?

I connect to freeserve and say my account is nige@boy.freeserve.co.uk, I received an email with a zipped attachment from james@boy.freeserve.co.uk

I thought the @boy.freeserve bit was unique to me. So anyway I deleted this straight away, didn't open the attachment, but out of curiosity I emailed this bod. Next minute I received an email from .....myself. Therefore the account delivered the email I sent back to me.

Was this just an error, or has somebody created a sppof email address to send a virus or the like.

Now a paranoid Nigeyboy!!!!!!!!!!

IanW

Sounds like the virus below to me:-

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100795.htm

Nigeyboy

Cheers Ian

That looks like the one, judging by the email content. Does this mean somebody who has my email address has the virus and sent it on to me, or do I have it?

BTW ran virus checker (Mcafee VirusScan, which was updated 3 days ago and it didn't come up with anything!

Cheers
Nige

boomer

See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33721.html

mb