[at-l] Viral question...

[askowronek@mindspring.com (Amy)]

Felix wrote:

> About 6 times a week (a little less than once a day) I get a
> large e-mail (ruffly 145K) from a sender I've never heard
> of. The 'body' of the e-mail is always blank. Blank, I say.
> Yesterday, I got a large e-mail (145K) from Datto. The body
> was blank. Blank, I say. This was the first time that the
> e-mail came from an address that was familiar. Does anybody
> know what is going on when this is going on?


When that's going on, what's going on is that somebody who's
infected with a virus has both you and Datto in his or her
address book.  The virus sends you mail and pretends that it's
from Datto.

Either that or Datto's gotten weirder.

-amy