I'm no expert at this but I did some reading and was under the impression that people will use your mail server to send emails and that there's not a lot that can be done about it. I would definitely like to be proven wrong with this. The simply script something to telnet into your mail port and send emails... These emails are generated from your server so even setting your email to send only from your domain does not protect you. Is anyone listening that could shed some more light on this?
Thanks,
James
For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I had one of these said it was checked by norton. even put
>
www.norton.de in the footer. 2 problems with it 1. I don't use Windows
>
muchless norton 2. I'm in the US not Germany. Just to be on the safe
>
side and to see if it did affect me. I ran clamav that day and I was
>
clean.
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 08:14, Michael Sullivan
wrote:
> > I've got a small problem. Last week I received in my
>
> non-espersunited.com email account an email from someone I don't
know
> > with an .exe file as an attachment. Naturally I assumed that
this was a
> > virus, and wrote back to the email address it was from
informing them
> > that they had a virus. I've received several similar
emails on through
> > the week, most were unique but all followed the
same format: One line
> > of text and then the attachment link, usually
a .exe or a .zip file. I
> > haven't opened any of them, but in the
past couple of days I've begun
> > seeing them in my espersunited.com
email accounts. I wasn't too worried
> > about it until this morning,
when I received a message from another SMTP
> > server saying that my
mail was undeliverable to some person's email
> > account. I looked at
the message sent and it was indeed from me, but
> > the message body
held the same one line and thesame EXE/ZIP file
> > attachment as the
ones I'd received from multiple sources. I use
> > evolution as my
email client. Could I be infected with this virus? I
> > didn't think
Linux was susceptible to virii - only hostile shell
> > scripts. Is
there a way I can test if I am infected, and if I am, is
> > there a
way to find the virus so that I can destroy it?
> >
>
>
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