[ale] Apparently used in spam or virus distribution

[James P. Kinney III]

More likely is your email address has been "harvested" and used in a
spoof. The headers were forged to hid the true source. The other
possibility is that some who has you in their Oubreak Express
addressbook just got a bug and your address was forged in by the bug.

Linux doesn't _use_ pif files. Pine doesn't execute code found in
attachments. 

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:53, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> This morning I received two notices from UK recipients to the effect that 
> mail from me contained suspect attachments, identified in one case as a 
> PIF file.
> 
> As I am not aware of sending any mail to these recipients and do not have 
> copies of the suspect mail, I can't tell whether they represent a 
> compromise of my Linux-2.4.20 system, the Pine newsreader, fetchmail, 
> sendmail, or some other link of the chain.
> 
> Any suggestions for learning if this is really my problem?
> 
> Thanks.
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> 
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GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
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