fake emails with virus?

I have learned the hard way to never open a link that is suspicious. By suspicious I mean:

From someone you don't know or from someone you do know but it is not in their normal format such as their photo, a personal note from them, or the other "sent to" addresses are not hidden when they usually are. If your friends don't "cc" the addresses they are sending to, tell them to.

I have sent suspicious emails back to the sender, who I usually know, and they always tell me they didn't send it but that their account was hacked.

Better to be safe and just delete them than to get a virus'.

You can't find the sender. Someone in your email list has a virus, and that virus looks up THEIR email address book, selects a random email as sender (ie: you), and sends itself back out with the virus to everyone in that person's email address book. The virus spoofs the return address (ie: you), so you get any bounces.

You, in 99%+ probability, did not send those emails, nor are you the cause of the problem. It is "someone" else, who has the infected machine. Viruses do this, since most names in address books are "trusted" by others, and they tend to open those emails... A virus would never send from the actual "infected" machine, as the email sender, since it would be discovered quickly (like you see the bounces right away if it was you...). These viruses often use the hacker's email server to send, or even have a small email engine within the virus itself.

Some of your contacts may accuse you of sending this virus out, but it was not you. It is someone else, with poor or no virus protection, who sent out all those emails.

Thank you both for the questions!

this is a virus called milissa. it gets into your e-mail attaches itself to a e-mail and pretends to be some random crap. once u execute it it spams itself to EVRY e-mail in your computer/contacts list.

how to remove:

just dont open the VBS script it sends you

Omg! Same thing happened to me idk whats up? And once my friends email got hacked and theyre constantly sending me spam -.-