Re: [Evolution] Phishing virus

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 07:54 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 16:38 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 09:45 -0700, James a martin wrote:
> > > >  I use Ubuntu Hardy OS and Evolution to read email over Verizon
> > > > internet.  Verizon disabled my outgoing email for a day because I had
> > > > abusive sending from my computer.
> > >
> > > I don't understand how you were sending these viruses unless you were
> > > doing it manually, e.g. by forwarding mail from elsewhere. It's
> > > extremely unlikely that the viruses were affecting your own machine.
>
> Does anyone besides me find the term 'abusive sending' inconclusive? Do
> they mean that you were sending mails containing viruses (then Patrick's
> comment holds true, you must be forwarding mails manually since an
> 'in-the-wild' virus targetting evolution or any linux mail client
> doesn't to the best of my knowledge exist yet) or were you sending large
> amounts of mail (spam behaviour)?
>
> The second could be caused by someone else having access to your
> machine, for example through ssh (this is disabled by default, unless
> you've enabled it for some reason ignore this part).

A third possibility is that someone is spamming using your address, but
from somewhere else. It all depends on how smart Verizon's software is
at detecting where the mail actually came from.

poc