Re: [PLUG] Delivery reports about your e-mail

[Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@verizon.net>]

All these means that someone on an infected machine had addresses and  
spoofed both the sender (I've gotten email from clueless admins telling  
me that my machine was sending bot spam when that highly unlikely  
(running Mac or Linux, not opening email with attachments I wasn't  
expecting).  Some of the bots even harvested email addresses from  
Usenet.  It's possible that the current bot has a web crawler.  Nobody  
on this list is necessarily infected -- the bot can get addresses in  
many way.


On Wednesday, July 6, 2005, at 02:12  AM, schwepes@netaxs.com wrote:

> I'm amazed if my account is generating spam.  It is not coming from me
> as I have received mail at schwepes@netaxs.com but for the past month
> have sent the mail from schwepes@moog.netaxs.com.
> My mail server is external to my machine, a telnet service of my ISP.
> bs
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, arthur@alexion.com wrote:
>
> > Dear user plug@phillylinux.org,
> >
> > We have detected that your e-mail account has been used to send a  
> > huge amount of spam during this week.
> > Most likely your computer was infected and now contains a hidden  
> > proxy server.
> >
> > Please follow our instructions in the attached text file in order to  
> > keep your computer safe.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > phillylinux.org user support team.
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