unfortunately, it's likely it's your fault for using email, hehe... at least one of the recent windows viruses steals addresses from the address books of infected machines and sends out mail to/from those addresses. It's likely that someone that had your address in their address book was infected and your email address got abused as a result. i have definitely felt the pain of that over the last month, as i'm sure many others have. i can't even avoid the pain of using windows by not using windows anymore. i have to convince everyone i know not to use windows :)
aaron > I've fairly recently setup a mail server to: > > 1) learn about email and server configurations and all that goes along > with administrating it. > > 2) And being able to recieve loads of email from freebsd-questions without > fear of restriction on any other account (i.e. loss of email that I want > to save). > > Anyhow, within the month that I've had my server running I've been > recieving numerous emails that are obviously malicious to Windows users > (i.e. contain an attachment with some random-letters.exe and nonsense > about a patch). In short my concern is not that me or my wife will run > this, sense we don't use Windows, but whether these emails are just spam > or if it is my fault. > > If said emails are just spam, fine. Not to say that I like spam but it > gives me a reason to learn how to setup a spam filter and/or tarpit. The > reason I worry that it's not just spam is that there are only 2 accounts, > mine and my wifes, and she doesn't use her's except to email me and I've > only used mine to setup freebsd-questions and email her. So why would I be > getting spam? So then I think maybe it's my fault. > > What I mean by my fault is, is my machine being used to relay spam and > then I am getting bounces from the poor people recieve this crap? I really > would hate for this to be the case. Even if said emails are not my fault > how do I assure that I am not relaying spam unbeknown to me? > > This is a sample header from one such email. Now I'm not too sure how to > take this. > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from mail.themango.org ([unix socket]) > by mail.themango.org (Cyrus v2.2.3) with LMTP; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 > 16:06:23 -0600 > X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 > Received: from centennialrd.net (unknown [196.32.150.6]) > by themango.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2194450F2 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:06:21 -0600 (CST) > Received: from qexstrg (jp [196.32.129.120]) > by centennialrd.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i1HLwZHp022746; > Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:58:36 -0400 > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:58:35 -0400 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Technical Bulletin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "MS User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > SUBJECT: Newest Microsoft Patch > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bicnhrvs" > > My configuration is FreeBSD 5.2.1, Postfix + Cyrus > > Thanks for any help, > > Luke > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
