On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:12:20 -0400, Adrian Try <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not infected because Linux???
A few years ago my inbox was sending out mails whole the time, and
receiving them from anywhere (including myself)
The addresses were often collages of existing emailaddresses. I have
different emails and sometimes I would receive withe an adress like
this [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I have [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This was happening in NetBSD, seems it could happen to any OS....
Are you sure you tracked down the source of the emails to your own
computer?
I had a similar experience a few years ago when I was running Windows.
Friends warned me constantly that they were receiving virus infected
email from me. But as much as I searched and scanned, I could never
find a virus on my computer.
It turned up that someone else had a virus on their computer. I was in
their address book, as were my friends. Their computer sent the infected
emails, but the virus sneakily changed the email headers to look like it
was coming from my computer.
Since then I've heard of many trojans that use the same strategy.
So my little story makes me wonder about your situation. Perhaps your
system wasn't infected at all. It sounds more like something that would
happen in Microsoft Outlook to me.
Adrian
you know what? that make total sense to me, and yes there could be doing
that. I have seen the header of the email and some stuff spark up as odd,
first they seem to be an address from the embassy of colombia which could
be one an alien address at the email header. So zombie machines could be
spoofing the address :(
I dont think there is much we could do.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Grupo de Usuarios Linux Tabasco
http://www.gultab.org
OpenOffice.org
Community Contact // Mexico
http://www.openoffice.org
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