"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:HWpWb.32096$fZ6.23502@lakeread06...
i'm getting mydoom virus e-mail from your bellatlantic address...

First off, I can assure you my PC is not infected. I have been writing
email and other internet software for years and have a really secure
environment. Because I develop software, I am especially careful about
email and scan for viruses daily and make extra effort when something like
Mydoom is going around. I trap all programs that try to make a network
connection and manually OK all access. Nothing is getting through my
screens. Seriously.

We have the misfortune of having our addresses on somebody's infected PC
(I'm pretty sure it's in Australia). I have been getting dozens of Mydoom
messages every day - and a lot more have been trapped by filters at my ISP.
Along with the continuing stream of messages, mostly with forged Australian
addresses, but also many from the Netherlands, and France, are a lot of
'rejections' from virus filters at various international ISPs, companies and
individuals. Mydoom is adept at forging source addresses and uses the
address book on the infected PC both to send messages and also to fake
'from' addresses. I got a few angry messages from people who received
Mydoom from 'me' over the past two weeks. I doubt that they believe my
story.

My suspicion is that some Australian ROFFian might be infected. Somebody
who obviously has both of us in his/her address book. If you received one
from 'me', rest assured that many people have received it from 'you'.

--Stan (death to the virus writers)