Re: My fault or just Spam

From: Ed Budd (ebudd_at_grokking.org)
Date: 02/18/04

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    It's a virus (my AV calls it Worm.Gibe.F). I bet most of the list gets
    these occasionally. Some hapless windows user got infected and has you
    in their address book (perhaps through the outlook
    auto-add-addresses-to-addressbook-function applied to something you
    posted once on a public list??)

    Install Clamav from ports and set it up to interface with postfix (I use
    it with sendmail milter but should be similar -- check clamav site for
    details).

    Don't sweat it, man -- life as usual in the wild-and-woolly...

    EB

    On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:29:03 -0600 (CST)
    luke@themango.org wrote:

    > I've fairly recently setup a mail server to:
    >
    > 1) learn about email and server configurations and all that goes along
    > with administrating it.
    >
    > 2) And being able to recieve loads of email from freebsd-questions
    > without fear of restriction on any other account (i.e. loss of email
    > that I want to save).
    >
    > Anyhow, within the month that I've had my server running I've been
    > recieving numerous emails that are obviously malicious to Windows
    > users(i.e. contain an attachment with some random-letters.exe and
    > nonsense about a patch). In short my concern is not that me or my wife
    > will run this, sense we don't use Windows, but whether these emails
    > are just spam or if it is my fault.
    >
    > If said emails are just spam, fine. Not to say that I like spam but it
    > gives me a reason to learn how to setup a spam filter and/or tarpit.
    > The reason I worry that it's not just spam is that there are only 2
    > accounts, mine and my wifes, and she doesn't use her's except to email
    > me and I've only used mine to setup freebsd-questions and email her.
    > So why would I be getting spam? So then I think maybe it's my fault.
    >
    > What I mean by my fault is, is my machine being used to relay spam and
    > then I am getting bounces from the poor people recieve this crap? I
    > really would hate for this to be the case. Even if said emails are not
    > my fault how do I assure that I am not relaying spam unbeknown to me?
    >
    > This is a sample header from one such email. Now I'm not too sure how
    > to take this.
    >
    > Return-Path: <johnny@centennialrd.net>
    > Received: from mail.themango.org ([unix socket])
    > by mail.themango.org (Cyrus v2.2.3) with LMTP; Tue, 17 Feb 2004
    > 16:06:23 -0600
    > X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
    > Received: from centennialrd.net (unknown [196.32.150.6])
    > by themango.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2194450F2
    > for <luke@themango.org>; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:06:21 -0600 (CST)
    > Received: from qexstrg (jp [196.32.129.120])
    > by centennialrd.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id
    > i1HLwZHp022746; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:58:36 -0400
    > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:58:35 -0400
    > Message-Id: <200402172158.i1HLwZHp022746@centennialrd.net>
    > From: "Technical Bulletin" <arvbsichaqsbax@confidence.microsoft.com>
    > To: "MS User" <njcs-hgoerlo@confidence.microsoft.com>
    > SUBJECT: Newest Microsoft Patch
    > Mime-Version: 1.0
    > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bicnhrvs"
    >
    > My configuration is FreeBSD 5.2.1, Postfix + Cyrus
    >
    > Thanks for any help,
    >
    > Luke
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