[Sussex] Phantom Emails

John D. johnsemail at f2s.com
Wed Jun 13 16:05:42 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 13 June 2007 14:25:31 john wrote:
> Can anyone shed any light on the origin of about 10 emails that I have
> received in the last 14 days.  I am using SimplyMepis 6.0, Kmail,
> SpamAssassin & ClamAV ona standalone laptop.
>
> Each one shows as No subject: Sender unknown: Date Thu Jan 1 00:59 59 1970.
>
> Show all headers gives the following:
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on
> mepis1.example.dom X-Spam-Level: ***
>  X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.3 required=5.0
> tests=EMPTY_MESSAGE,MISSING_SUBJECT,
>         NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS,TO_CC_NONE autolearn=no version=3.1.3
>  X-Virus-Flag: no
>  X-UID:
>  Status: R
>  X-Status: NC
>  X-KMail-EncryptionState:
>  X-KMail-SignatureState:
>  X-KMail-MDN-Sent:
>
> The machine is multi-boot with XP home and Ubuntu as alternative os's.  XP
> would have gone last year but I cannot get the SatNav software program
> which installs the maps to run under Linux.  About 3 weeks ago I had to
> load some European maps and I did install the latest security updates for
> WinXP but the firewall  blocked the sending of updated system info to
> Microsoft.  Could these  emails be an attempt to probe my windows
> installation?
>
> John Gregory
John,
Is it all emails that you're getting through linux ? or just some of them ?

regards

John D.




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