Computer Virus FAQs

 I got an email from someone I don’t know that says I sent them a virus.  What does this mean?

Email is just like regular mail—just because the return address has a name on it, that doesn’t mean that’s who the mail is actually from.  Forging the “return address” on an email is easy.  The KLEZ virus is designed to do just that.  When someone gets KLEZ, it searches through their address book and grabs a name from it, then uses that name to forge the return address.  The virus then begins sending itself to other names in the address book.  It’s possible that you don’t have a virus at all, and someone else with your name in their address book has the KLEZ virus.