How's this for a cunning piece of spam.

The following message appeared in my email with a FROM address of:

    antivirus_at_isd3.timesgroup.com

Vexira has detected the following in a mail from your address:

 Worm/Sobig.F virus

The mail was not delivered.

Your computer may be infected with a virus! Please visit Central Command at http://www.centralcommand.com and obtain a copy of Vexira AntiVirus now.

Now, if I were a cynical, bitter and suspicious person, it might cross my mind that every anti-virus company in the world could spam every known email address from just about every other known email address with a message that claimed to be from a user of their anti-virus software that had detected a virus in an email from the first email address..

Would a software company really be that underhand ?

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