virus emails "from" [e-mail]

[7thWoman]

Just curious, anyone getting viruses emailed to the address you used in your profile for this board, with the address [e-mail] in the From field?

I've had several over the last year (I haven't been paying that close attention), but I've noticed the address in the from field is often [e-mail]. I doubt any malice on the part of the owner of this account, I just find it a little odd that this particular address is used for the spoofed from field over and over again when infected attachments are sent to me. Thoughts?

[IdahoBoy]

Global Volley GeoCities site person sent me an email back in June along with a big bunch of us from here who let our email addresses be public.

I can only imagine that a virus on ONE of those machines sent to harvested the addresses and sent itself out again.

My junk mail filter is set pretty high, so I barely get the junk mail like that before.

I think it's bad policy to harvest email addresses from here to promote another site though.

[vbfan4life]

I got that e-mail but I just deleted it. I don't recall making my e-mail public.