On Saturday 28 August 2010 22:08, Mike Scott wrote: > An odd one this. I had some spam last night, received from a collab.net > mail relay, addressed to the account email address I use for logging > into the OOo issues system. That address is unique to that purpose and > never given out elsewhere, and a check search on google (web and groups) > for it returns no matches, so it's not exactly publicly available. > > As is usual, it's not clear where the spam originated - the sending > email is a yahoo.hk address, which means zilch. It's all in a chinese > character set, with a stack of image attachments (which I've not opened) > > So, how on earth did a spammer get hold of this unpublished (and not > exactly guessable) email addy, and why is collab.net routing this stuff > for him/her/them? Anyone else been so afflicted?
When was the last time you used chkrootkit on your linux box? Are those emails secure or plain text to and from collabnet? No insecure email is safe from harvesting of addresses in transit. You may want to consider disposable addresses, gmail or similar. HTH -- Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
