Technical question

[dreamflower]

Here's a question for those of you more intimately acquainted with the gremlins who run the computers of the world: twice now I have gone to empty my spam filter and found that the *sender* was *me* (in other words, my own email address)and the "spam" in the subject line was something I never heard of. Is this something virus-y that I have to worry about, or just some spammy idjits being clever?

Comments

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Spammy idjits being clever. All those "we rejected the message you sent" thingies for messages you know nothing about are bogus too.

[dreamflower]

Thanks!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Might be a virus. What is the subject line?

[dreamflower]

One of them actually said "no subject" the other one I don't remember. I've already emptied the filter. Oops!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Keep an eye on it. It might be that a spam bot harvested your e-mail addy from a site and disguises itself by mimicking the sender e-mail adress coming from you, but in fact the orginating sender is someone else. In the header you can see from where the e-mail is coming from. In wich field it stands (From, To, CC or BCC) can also give you a clue. If you want to, I can have a look at the headers the next time it happens. Just forward me the full e-mail in that case. There are e-mail virusses going around, but why on earth would it end up in your own inbox.