Mac mail virus?

I have a feeling that Iv picked up a worm or virus that has taken over my MobileMe mail account. I haven't gotten any mail to my MobileMe account so went to look. That's when I noticed that on the 29th and 30th I sent out 30 separate e-mails using 'very' old subject lines and each was sent exactly at 06:44. I'm not even up at 06:44.
Is there anyway to find out if Iv got a worm or virus that's come in attached to someone else's e-mail and now using my address book to do it's own thing?

Temporarily:
Why don't you take the machine offline when you are not using it?
That puts some control back into your hands, in the short term, if you have no reason to leave itonline 24/7.
+Wild hair:+ Could it be in how you work?
The emails aren't in the drafts folder too, as copies are they?
This is unlikely,
but could they be there as well - and you are "sending all drafts" using a timed script or a mistaken keyboard shortcut? (That one taught me not to keep drafts with destination addresses, in case I had a change of heart about what I said in an email draft!)
If its not for certain that you've been hacked,
working from what do you KNOW, vs what you don't is usually a good idea.
I've gone through this kind of suspicion several times, only to find that I've jumped to the most unlikely,
but most insidious conclusion first. Are you using any keyboard capture software that was inadvertantly set?
(I once got into a mess with MenuMaster doing this on me).
Sorry. No real help here from me.
Maybe its useful anyway.

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It is not a virus. It's a bug in Mail that fails to reset that count, so it keeps incrementing each time you send a message. When it says it's sending 6 messages, that really just means you're sending the 6th message since you last opened Mail.

Mac mail has virus

crashed a fed computer with mac mail over 120 copies also looped as i cc'd myself. now again . even emails from mac.this am started. /
new computer in getting noew optical drive at techroom. went to store said go call when get computer abck and make appt . anyone can help me now? i have critical needs and cant be crashing govt computers.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yikes!

Read the discussion after the article carefully, please.
I've read it more than once already. I know what it says. But thanks.
All programs MUST RUN in order to do anything.
Of course. Somebody has to start it off. And that person is the one who wrote it.
Viruses do not and cannot simply install themselves.
You can't be serious. Windows users would heartily disagree that they need to do anything to receive and propagate the thousands of viruses and worms they have to deal with.
The whole point here is that computer scientists have broken down these types of malware by catagory to define how they operate once in the wild. Not how they start.
A virus or worm, once started, requires no interaction with the user to continue its own duplication or spreading. Windows viruses only need (in most cases) access to your email address book. They will happily send themselves back out to everyone in your book without any interaction from you. Or copy themselves from one Word document to another in the case of macro viruses. Again, without any help from you, or even your knowledge. Worms don't even need that. They duplicate by searching out other computers on their own. Again, no interaction by you is necessary. All a worm requires is that your computer is on so it can attempt to find it and copy itself to you.
A Trojan Horse, however, is dumb. It cannot replicate or do whatever it is written to do until you intentionally run it yourself.

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When i send emails to most people from Mac Mail if get the following response:
Message contains a virus or other malicious code
550 (Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain)
(full response below)
I have downloaded 3 anti virus scanners (ClamXav - which detected infected emails which i deleted, Virus Barrier X6 which did the same, I quarantined this time and lastly MacScan which quarantined 41 Trojans found). This still hasnt stopped my emails from bouncing.
I have just upgraded to Lion as it upgrades Mail and this hasnt helped either.
Any ideas anyone?
SMTP error from remote server after transfer of mail text:
host mx.daily.co.uk[195.26.90.18]:
550-Message contains a virus or other malicious code
550 (Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain)
--- The header of the original message is following. ---
Received: from [10.0.1.13] (cpc1-dals2-0-0-cust994.hari.cable.virginmedia.com [82.35.75.227])
by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis)
id 0MSTdP-1QxeBe2XWt-00TYNl; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:52:01 +0200
From: Brett Jefferson Stott <[email protected]>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_13AF1900-857E-474E-B7A3-0140183E6F2E"
Subject: test
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:52:01 +0100
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: London Street Photography Festival <[email protected]>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3)
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3)
X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:myvTxaHm4aFpD2UhbLWXUofRrpa24Dg7jy4GU+UOpkC
v1qcfBj/8iyGwd8zL/R+L/YVMHL2IE3LSfFwpVYEeKFWIpQvt1
ZfGDYKsnUyd7XWqZjLNuRA+FIAChrDzVZ7aAHFO951f/kdo5SL
E2miHol1JgA0cztWu5UBxMo9akEwPwb5YNHogeIpvg+sOYisuW
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Does Mac Mail's "Quick Look URL" option for links prevent software from being downloaded onto my computer?

I received an e-mail from a friend that had a suspicious looking link embedded in it. I did not navigate to the link in my web browser but I did do a "quick look" in Mac Mail. Does this open me up to any vulnerability? If so, is there a way to check to see if any malicious software and/or viruses were downloaded onto my MacBook?
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Help! I use mac mail on my ibook to get mail from my go daddy server. Recently I cannot forward mail to one of my 3 accounts. when I try I get this message:
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Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
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thomjw wrote:
Making a rule to simply move emails from an unwanted sender (with a real email address) to the trash, is no solution at all. The whole point is to Reject that person's email by bouncing it back to them, with the intention of showing them they have NOT reached a valid email address. The whole point is to STOP their behavior, not accept it. Your suggestion, that I have to allow the unwanted email to come in, for me to have to deal with it, trashing it or otherwise, sounds like the attitude of the spammers.
Let's not confuse the point here, Apple put the "bounce mail" feature in Mac mail for a reason, and I just want it to work again.
Bouncing email is not unique to Apple's Mail. There is a RFC specifying how bouncing should be handled. Thomas already explained why bouncing email is not a good idea. Here is the reason quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeliveryreport.
"Today, however, most email is spam, which usually utilizes forged Return-Paths. It is then often impossible for the MTA to inform the originator, and sending a bounce to the forged Return-Path would hit an innocent third party. In addition, there are specific reasons why it is preferable to silently drop a message rather than reject it (let alone bounce it):
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My mac mail is downloading over 100,000 emails from the server every time i click the icon. i can't receive the current emails

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Rodolfo,
I guess you are missing my somewhat sarcastic sense of humour, and for that, I apologize.
Of course OS X can get viruses, malware and pesky adware. I was merely poking fun, at those, who are no so technically inclined, and tend to just "drink the koolaid" regardless of the established facts and body of evidence. I am acutely aware which operating systems are vulnerable and why. In my over 20 years of using computers for work and play, in my experience, UNIX has been the most secure...which is why it is the choice of governments' world-wide, and the least was WIN95-98. I had no virus' or malware at all with Win7...using MaCaffe, MalwareBytes, and SuperAdBlocker (which is a Chrome extension which seems to work fine on OS X) And no they did not slow down my machines (Norton did...very slow) Hackers find no challenge in writing for only 9% ( OS X ) of the units out there, as the 90% is a much bigger, and more lucrative target. It has nothing to do with the inherant inability for OS X to get viruses, malware or adware.
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thomjw wrote:
Making a rule to simply move emails from an unwanted sender (with a real email address) to the trash, is no solution at all. The whole point is to Reject that person's email by bouncing it back to them, with the intention of showing them they have NOT reached a valid email address. The whole point is to STOP their behavior, not accept it. Your suggestion, that I have to allow the unwanted email to come in, for me to have to deal with it, trashing it or otherwise, sounds like the attitude of the spammers.
Let's not confuse the point here, Apple put the "bounce mail" feature in Mac mail for a reason, and I just want it to work again.
Bouncing email is not unique to Apple's Mail. There is a RFC specifying how bouncing should be handled. Thomas already explained why bouncing email is not a good idea. Here is the reason quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeliveryreport.
"Today, however, most email is spam, which usually utilizes forged Return-Paths. It is then often impossible for the MTA to inform the originator, and sending a bounce to the forged Return-Path would hit an innocent third party. In addition, there are specific reasons why it is preferable to silently drop a message rather than reject it (let alone bounce it):
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* Viruses and worms. Most times these are sent automatically from an infected machine. Since a bounce may contain a copy of the worm itself, it may contribute to its diffusion."
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Robert,
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