What this means is that somebody, most likely on a Windows machine, had your email address in their address book (if you have posted anywhere on the net and someone sent you a reply, most email programs will then store your address on their PC when they replied to you), got their machine infected, and you are now getting not only the emails, but the bounced emails because the worm on their machine puts in your addy in the reply to and/or from field and the servers send it to the address in those fields.
Quite a few spammers also stick the person's email addy in the from and reply to fields also in an attempt to get by spam filters.
It is an annoyance.
lloyd545220-trucker@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
It appears that I got a mass-mailing worm on my FC3 system the other day. I discovered it when I got an email from myself to an alternate email address. It was an advertisement for the following site:
http://www.thenetpanel.com/thankyou.asp?u=2913335
I had 'chkrootkit" on my system and I ran that afterwards. It reported that my system is clean.
I installed F-Prot's virus software afterwards on this computer and had it check my system. It also reported that there no problems to be found.
My FC3 system has Selinux installed and all files are up to date. I also have "Shorewall" installed.
I can't find any trace of it now, but I am getting lots of emails about undeliverable email from me to people in my address book stating that an email sent from me had " 6 x Worm.Sober.P." in it.
It also seems to have been a one time thing.
But I had thought that these worms were only for MS system...
Any ideas here?
Lloyd
lloyd545220-trucker@xxxxxxxxx
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