[X4U] Very Odd Blank emails

[Jim Eddy]

I've recently noticed that I'm getting blank emails--no subject line,  
no body text, and occasionally no sender listed. I'd been getting a few  
of them off and on for a while, so when someone (perhaps on this list?)  
suggested an applescript that puts blank emails directly into the  
trash. I'm using Apple Mail under 10.3.9. The script seems to work,  
until I noticed that I had several thousand blank emails in my trash.
So today, I did a bit of testing and found that the emails come in  
groups of 42, and these groups come in each time I check email, whether  
it be 2 seconds or 10 minutes. The individual messages in each group  
are different from each other (although one sender is repeated 5 times,  
with different time stamps), but each group of 42 is exactly the same  
as the other groups. The messages are also spread through the 3  
accounts I use.
I assume that it's caused by a virus somewhere, but where? on my  
machine, or somewhere else? They go harmlessly (I think!) into the  
trash, and I don't have other problems that I know of from this.  
Anything to do? It's all very odd.
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Jim Eddy                                               James Eddy  
Woodworks
giametti at mac.com               jim at jameseddywoodworks.com
                               Mount Pleasant, Michigan
                          http://jameseddywoodworks.com
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