On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:02:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > What do you call having been infected by a program that sends thousands > of emails out without you knowing it.? > > Anyway I received via my ISP's email server several emails that claimed > my box sent out thousands of emails over the weekend. > > It asked me to open + execute an attached file for an explanation of how > to avoid it. (Which I did not) > > Several things were fishy: > 1. The notes were in English and the ISP is Mexican and the userid > Mexican, so why the English? > 2. The box is firewalled and chkrootkit 0.47 detects noting. > 3. This is a dialup account, so the IP changes all the time. > 4. I have tleds installed and I notice no undue activity, but the system > runs unattended often. > > But it brings up an interesting question: > > How would you find out if this was the case? >
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