CPHS Tech Support occasionally receives reports of emails being returned with virus warnings, though the user never sent the email (often, the user doesn't even know the recipient of the infected email). These are "spoofed" emails and you can ignore them.

Works like this:

1) John Doe sends Susie Que an email, to which she replies - now his email address is in Susie Que's address book
2) Susie Que gets a virus (I've heard she's rather "easy", always opening email attachments without thinking, tsk, tsk).
3) The virus looks through her email address book and does two things: it sends itself out to all those addresses, but it also replaces the From part of the email with another address from her address book (making the infected email look like it came from them instead of her!)
4) The infected email gets caught & since it says its from John Doe (though its not! he may never have even heard of the person who said they got the email!) - the email system sends him a nasty message saying John Doe should quit sending viruses.
5) John Doe says "huh?".

(Some viruses even scan recently visited websites and pull off any email addresses it finds on them to spoof.)

So: If you know your system is virus-protected & has the latest Windows security patches (the school ones do), and someone says you have a virus - just throw it away. In this situation, someone who has your work email address (or has visited our website) has the virus!