What should I do if the recipient of a message I sent (or appear to have sent) contacts me to say the message has been modified because of a virus or potentially malicious content?
A warning such as this is created when a potentially dangerous file or attachment to an email has been rendered safe, or a known virus has been deleted by the University’s Email Virus scanning system. This does not necessarily mean your computer is infected with a virus. What it does mean is that: 1) Someone’s computer that is infected with a virus has sent an email via the University’s email service purporting to be you; or 2) You have sent a file or attachment that contains some characteristics that have been identified as potentially malicious by the University’s Email Virus scanning system. For more details on the characteristics determined to be potentially malicious see the FAQ titled – Under what circumstances would the University email virus scanning system modify email messages I send?; or 3) Your computer is infected with a virus which is trying to spread itself by either sending itself to people contained in your address book, or by attaching itself to files you send to othe
