From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 08:46:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3AA16A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail10.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B226E43FDD for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:46:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 12992 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 15:46:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail10.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Aug 2003 15:46:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7JFt9A04088; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:55:09 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@localhost.localdomain To: Charles Howse In-Reply-To: <002301c36666$b530afb0$04fea8c0@moe> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flood of infected emails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:46:47 -0000 Charles, all - On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Charles Howse wrote: > Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > All the emails have the same subject lines: > > Thank you! > RE: That movie > RE: RE: My Details > RE: RE: My Details > RE: Details > RE: Wicked Screensaver > RE: Approved > RE: Your application > > But are from different users. > I am also getting Mail Delivery Warnings from different postmasters > concerning "my" messages being undeliverable due to full mailboxes. > I am also getting msgs from servers warning me that "my" msg contained a > virus. I am so far only getting the notices that I may have sent infected mail, and my follow-up attempts have all been blocked. I think my address is being used for parts of a flood of virus or spam mail. It seems plausible the harvesting was done from 'freebsd-questions'. John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu