Email Security,need help.

[Dave65]

I keep getting these returned email letters telling me my email could not be sent because it contains a virus,but the thing is I didn't send any emails,and they are sent to people I don't know.
Do I have a virus?
i have Norton 2003 System Works and it isn't finding anything wrong when I do a scan.

Should I reformat or something??
Any info would be great..Thanks

[niter]

run the live update and make sure your virus definitions are up to date. rescan. good luck.

[Smokeys]

Its probably the latest email worm SoBig.F which can forge the from: field, chances are you didn't send them but somebody else who is infected that had your email somewhere on their hard drive.

More information (http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SOBIG.F)

[Dave65]

Originally posted by Smokeys
Its probably the latest email worm SoBig.F which can forge the from: field, chances are you didn't send them but somebody else who is infected that had your email somewhere on their hard drive.

More information (http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SOBIG.F)

I keep it up tp date,and I ran the Trend Micro for that worm and it found nothing.I am stumped.

[Carnil]

You almost certainly aren't infected, and the problem is something you can't do anything about.

Somewhere in the world, there is a computer that has your e-mail address in the address book. That computer is infected by the sobig.f virus. When the virus sends out e-mails while trying to spread itself, it lies about the address it's being sent from. Sometimes it uses your address.

Somewhere else in the world, there is a computer with a virus scanner. When it recieves an e-mail containing a virus, it sends an e-mail back to tell the person they are infected. Because sobig.f lies about where e-mails it sends are from, the virus scanner tells you that the e-mail was infected, instead of telling the person with the infected computer.