[ale] Apparently used in spam or virus distribution

[attriel at d20boards.net (attriel)]

> 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?

Most likely you sent mail to someone who got infected and it's spoofing
the From:

virus writers figured out how to do that a year or two back and it's
become quite popular since it completely botches the trace path :/

--attriel
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