Quote:
Originally Posted by andr113
It may be any virus or spammer's attack!
|
If you mean to say this could be a spammer or a virus/worm, yes. There have been dozens and dozens of virus type emails sent using someone's (valid) email address. In the past it was because the PC of that person's email address was infected and that was how the malware propagated, but in recent years that no longer has to be the case. They can be from a valid email address from a totally clean PC, but I'm not sure how that works. It's like the malware "scans something somewhere" and finds millions of email addresses and just picks some to use (at random).