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Howard
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I just got an e-mail from the aol 'mailer-daemon' talking about several undeliverable e-mails I sent out. Only, I didn't send them.
I suspect my system may have been breached. I run Red Hat 7.3 connected to the net via a LinkSys Cable/DSL Router (with the hardware firewall). I looked at the various logs in /var/log and I checked out the system using the Steve Gibson site's security checkers (OK, not the strongest, but it's quick), and all seemed OK.
I must admit I'm behind in all the security upgrades posted on the RH errata page; maybe six months or so.
Right now I need some good ideas as to whether I have been breached and then how to lock up my system. I will eventually need some suggestions on how to avoid this in the futeure. ... obviously one thing is to do the RH upgrades.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. TIA!
Joe Henley
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razvlerrr
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Details of the message? Its quite likely the somebody (running Windows) with your email address in their Windows Address Book, Outlook Address Book, or Internet Explorer Web Cache, is infected with a virus that spreads by sending itself to people in the above locations with addresses randomly selected from same.
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Etotogeya
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Have you opened any ports on your Linksys router? If you haven't, I doubt you've been breached.
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