[NTLUG:Discuss] Mail Question

[Jay Urish]

You are dead on...
I don't see this trash anymore.. Look into Vexira antivirus for mailservers
All that junk gets pinched off at the pass.


At 12:57 PM 4/27/2004, you wrote:
>I have a desktop running Mandrake 9.0, which I use for general stuff,
>including reading email.  It is always kept up to date, and it is connected
>through a SMC router to a DSL line.  It is on 24/7, and serves my website
>with Apache. My ISP, SBC, uses pop for receiving, stmp for sending.  Kmail is
>my current mail reader.
>
>Lately I have been receiving notices like the following.
>
>"From: postmaster at srcp.com
>To: cfgraf at swbell.net
>Date:  Today 04:16:49 am
>This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
>Delivery to the following recipients failed.
>dwards at srcp.com
>
>Encapsulated message
>Postcard
>From: cfgraf at swbell.net
>To: dwards at srcp.com
>Date: Today 04:17:05 am
>Hello!
>Here is the document.
>Yours sincerely
>postcard0.pif
>End of encapsulated message"
>
>I do not know this person, and have never sent anything like this.  One of
>these shows up about daily now in my in-box.  The messages always contain a
>virus.  No sent mail like this shows in my Sent Mail folder.
>
>Am I correct in assuming that my email address is in someone's Outlook 
>address
>book, and a virus is sending out copies of itself using my address as the
>"From" line? Or has my box been hacked, and someone is sending out viri
>through it?
>
>Thank you for any ideas.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>
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