[ale] Were we hacked?

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 05:48 pm, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> Yesterday, I started getting bounced emails that I did not send out. Can
> you tell me if the origin of the email was my client/local machine or
> remote server?
> I am thinking that I may have gotten a "emailing virus" hacked into my
> local machine, or that my server was hacked. I got several reports that
> emails sent to me two weeks ago bounced (which may be related) for the
> first time. I understand that there are also ways that someone could send
> email via my server without hacking it - I just need to figure out what is
> happening before I get blamed for it.
>

Most likely the klez virus and you are probably NOT the one who was infected. 
It hit somebody who had your e-mail address in their Outlook address book and 
it started sending out e-mails that spoof your address as the originating 
address.


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