I just got this e-mail:
I am getting a lot of messages from your email which my server has deleted files due to probable viruses. Have other people mentioned this to you?
For the time being can you please delete our email from any address book that you have to prevent this from continuing?
I am not sure why I am annoyed by this, but I am. I don't think the tone of voice in the e-mail was malicious in any way- it just irked me. Maybe because like the rest of the world, I get around 5 e-mails a day from accounts of people who I know and they contain viruses. I am not an expert in computers but I know enough not to open random attachments and I delete these e-mails right away- whether I know the sender or not. I occasionally e-mail the sender and ask if they sent me an attachment I should be opening and they usually tell me they didn't. I guess it bothers me that there are people who are still naive about the goings on of e-mail, the internet etc. that continue to open these e-mails and then blame me for "sending" the viruses to them. I don't know. I am probably overreacting. I am just irritated.
These e-mails are probably coming from a friend of yours. Your e-mail is being spoofed.
Posted by: David Gerstman at July 21, 2004 09:18 PM