These aren't what I'm concerned about (although I have been getting them - those are almost certainly virii). What I've been getting are delivery failure messages with no attachments which make me wonder if I'm being used as a conduit for someone else's junk mail program and that these return mail messages are a result of junk mails sent to email addresses that are no longer in existence.Same here today. A couple early in the morning, and another string in the afternoon, all accompanied by fake Microsoft Security updates, and all the pairs had similar `return path` and/or `from` and/or `to`.
My suspicion is that these are directly coming from virus disseminators.
They are lousy to filter (I am using `mailfilter`; see Mandrake Club RPM Voting), because each pair has a completely different set of headers, but they all come with the same approximate size (~140-160 Kb), have a windows executable attached and the fake M$ ones also have two .gif type pictures.
Having said that, my firewall seems to be secure so far as I can tell. Stephen suggested that I should have a look at my postfix setup but I don't use a mailserver as my mail goes to and from my ISP via Mozilla without any intermediary.
I suppose I could take Charlie's advice and filter them out but I'd still like to get to the bottom of what's going on. Who is sending these and why?
As regards the suggestions for a vigilante organisation, I understand that most of the big time spammers are based in Florida. I suggest we start drawing up invasion plans :-)
I'm still completely mystified by this - if I'm not being hacked and there's no virus attached, then what on earth is the point of these things?
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