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Returned Emails
These messages are the unfortunate result of viruses on
computers. An infected machine is sending out messages that
claim to be coming from your email address (known as spoofing), and when those
messages can't get through, an email is sent back to your
address saying so.
This does not mean that your machine is infected (though you
should always keep your virus checker up to date, and check
your computer for viruses). It simply means someone, somewhere
with your address in their computer (someone you have sent an
email to, or who visited a website with your email address on
it) has a virus.
At the moment there is not really anything that can be done to
stop these messages, other than encouraging people to keep
their virus checkers up to date, and be careful about opening
emailed attachments, stopping the problem before it starts.
Once the machine that is using your address has the virus
removed, you should stop receiving these messages, though there
is nothing stopping the problem recurring. In general the
number of messages should drop as machines with viruses are
detected and the virus removed.
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