[ale] Apparently used in spam or virus distribution

[John Marasco]

Probably this SoBig thingy...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/954470.asp?0cv=CB10

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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