Hi Atri: I know you are a legitimate user of the plplot-devel mailing list with a good track record there, but it appears a spammer knows that you have subscribed to that list and has sent spam to that list today with your (forged) return address. If that spamming continues I will be forced to remove you as a subscriber.
I actually got two spams with your forged return address. One via the PLplot Devel mailing list and also one personally. So it seems fairly likely to me that the means for this attack is someone has compromised your machine and gotten access to your address book or else the file of previous e-mail you sent from that machine. Note such spamming of plplot-devel with a forged return address of an actual legitimate subscriber has never happened before which is another reason to think something extraordinary has gone on, i.e., a compromise of your (Linux?) computer. So you may need to look very carefully at the machine where your e-mail and e-mail addressbook are stored to see if that machine has been compromised. Once you are sure that machine is secure, then you may also want to change your subscription to plplot-devel to a new mailing address that is unknown by spammers. As a courtesy you will probably want to do the same thing for every other mailing list you have subscribed to as well, but such change is, of course, pointless until you are sure your machine is no longer compromised. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
