FireWall and Virus

[Derek Broughton]

Sylviane et Perry White wrote:

> *Addendum*: the only "scary" thing that happened to me was being warned
> that my computer (or was it my mail account or my internet connexion?) was
> being used to send spam, that was a long time ago (~1yr?) and I never had
> a proof of it,

Those "warnings" are usually bounce messages from poorly configured mail
systems that received an email using your name as sender.  The mail never
came anywhere near your system, but the recipient bounces a response to you
instead of doing what it should have done and verifying that the mail
actually came from you in the first place.
-- 
derek