I have not received such a message, nor do i know anyone who has. I used An AO member to stress the importance of not taking thing for granted, I though i made the spoofing clear, but apparantly i didn't do a good job of it:

"The name John can be interchanged with the name of anyone infected with this worm and sent to everyone in his/her address list as that person."


Most of the common worms/virus today propogate thenselves by sending a copy of the infected file to everyone on the address list of the computer it has infected. they use the actual user name of the owner of the computer, handle of irc account or mail account to make it seem more believable.

This has not happened at AO to my knowledge by that by no means makes it any less of a threat. It can very easily happen if a member becomes infected. Threw their own negligence or that of another who has access to a members computer.