strange email alerts in my hotmail about undeliverable mail when i havent even sent any

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i opened one the other day and it was a mess of symbols and gobbledegook.
a virus perhaps trying to find a way in?
since then i have been getting about one a day, always saying something about 'mailing failed' but not worded in the way it usually is when i have stuffed up an email address and it is rejected.
anyone else getting these things?
is it a virus / worm thing?

― donna (donna), Monday, 8 September 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

virus. delete 'em

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 September 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

delete delete delete ad nauseum to infinity and beyond!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got something like that in my hotmail. It could just be another spam technique so you'll click to see what the hell it is.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 8 September 2003 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, any email that goes "LjfknafjHDJSHusu #@$93 39" should probably be erased post-haste. Though you run the risk of ignoring a plea for help from someone who's choking to death.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 8 September 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ive been just deleting them since i looked at the first one. they are sneaky though,arent they, using 'message delivery failure' type headings to get you to open em up!

― donna (donna), Monday, 8 September 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds like stray SoBig worms. There was a thread on this from a week or two ago.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 8 September 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I got one of these the other day, luckily my copy of Norton killed it to pieces.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I had this, it was a side effect of SoBig. It doesn't necessarily have a thing to do with you...the worm will get in someone's address book, send itself to everyone in the book and pick a random address (yours) to spoof as the return address. It's not even necessarily the worm itself, just the email bouncing back to you.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been getting these too, and I was wondering if it was possible that spam-mails were being sent from my web-based email?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably. I get a lot of viruses sent to my hotmail address, the "undeliverable mail" gimmick gets used a lot.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

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