spam or virus?

You know how you can get an e-mail that appears as though it came from you? You know, how the spammers set it up so your e-mail address appears as the sender's address?

What happens if that message is also sent to someone else, and that address doesn't exist? Will you get the bounced message?

I got a message from a mailer daemon saying, "so-and-so does not exist." It had a couple of attachments which I will not open. My question: Was this (a) failed spam, (b) very tricky spam or (c) a very tricky virus?


I also had two e-mail responses from hotmail's anti-spam service. One said my query was inadequate because I didn't include the full e-mail with headers. The other explained a bunch about their spam policies. I have no idea why I got that. It was regarding a spam message, with a subject line I don't recall seeing.

going

Thanks, as usual, for your thoughts.

My mom and I are leaving for Tennessee right after work tomorrow. I don't think I'll be online much again until friday night or saturday morning.

I need to get to bed. I haven't packed yet.

Or gotten the hotel reservations, dammit.

Too many last minute details.