[SLUG] Re: joe-job or rootkit?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2008 - 23:07:52 EDT


On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Eben King wrote:

> I just got 6-7 bounces from mail I didn't send. SoI've probably been the
> victim of either a joe-job or a rootkit. I've got the bounce messages. How
> do I tell the difference?

More came in (72 got through my filter), and it looks like someone
joe-jobbed undergrad.$DEPARTMENT.$UNIVERSITY.edu . IMO, it's a stupid idea
to have such an unregulated address in the first place. I told spamassassin
that they were spam, so I'll see how that goes.

-- 
-eben     QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP     royalty.mine.nu:81
Your pretended fear lest error might step in is like the man who
would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.
                                               -- Oliver Cromwell
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