Spam using names from my address book

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david.h

I have noticed that some of the spam I get comes from names that I have
in my address book. It is not recent contacts but ones that I have sent
email to in the past. And it is all very random.

Could someone have access to my computer? I'm on a network with a
permanent open pipe to the internet. We do have a fire wall but some of
my colleagues are alos eexperienceing this as well.

Any one expereinced this? Did you manage to stop it?
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

I have noticed that some of the spam I get comes from names that I have
in my address book. It is not recent contacts but ones that I have sent
email to in the past. And it is all very random.
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That's very common......
Many viruses use the calendar of the infected computer and send e-mails
to a list of users there, pretending to be one of the contacts on the
list. The idea is that people might know each other and be a lot less
careful and open the attachments (viruses) sent with the e-mail.

My bet is that someone you know and who also knows the "sender" of the
e-mail has a virus on his PC (I haven't yet seen any virus that could do
that on Mac).
His computer is sending e-mail to the entire address book pretending to
be people on the list of contacts.

Corentin
 
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