[Gllug] Need spam tracking advice - possible rootkit

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Sun Dec 18 13:13:36 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 12:43 +0000, Branden Faulls wrote:
> In the last 2 days I've been getting bulk message bounces from an
> Irish domain that are rejecting  mail purported to be coming from my
> domain.  Normally I disregard these, figuring that they are purely
> phishing attacks. 
> 
> This particular bounce message, however, contains a list of recipients
> that match my wife's address book, or email sending habits.  I'm
> trying to track where the weak spot may be in the  network/email setup.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a possible cause of this.

Has your wife ever sent any bulk messages to all her friends and put all
the recipients in the "To:" field of the e-mail (instead of where she
should have put them, in the "Bcc:" field?  If so it only takes one of
the recipients to be using ShitHouse Express and you're FUBARed.

John

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