Receiving msgs that mail I HAVE NOT GENERATED cannot be delivered.  About 15 each day.  Is this a virus?

Hi, I have received about 15 email messages a day from " Mail Administrator - Mail System Error Returned Mail" that emails I have not generated, cannot be delivered as the destination computer cannot be found!  These emails are in a foreign language, appears to be russian, and I have no clue who/what generates them.  It was suggested to me that it could be a virus.  I have done three scans and so far nothing malicious has been found.  Does anyone know how I can fix/stop these?
Thank you
Chrysi

If this is someone else's windows machine, infected, and with your contact information in their contacts, then there is little if anything you can do.  Windows machines can often become infected by mail bots that randomly send mail from the infected computer to people in the contact's database, AND using email addresses found in those contacts to spoof the "from" field in the outgoing mail.  When those messages fail, the receiving server bounces them back to you as your email was in the "from" address field.
The only solution would be to disinfect the infected computer, but since you have no idea who (amongst all those with your contact information) is the actual infected computer, you cannot really do anything.

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