Security
About a month ago I received a couple of really weird emails. I deleted them. Then on July 18 I got two more similarly weird emails. I created a quarantine folder in my email and put them in there. Then on July 25 my ISP sent me an email stating that my email account was being used to send spam. I worked with their technical support and finally concluded that the spam probably did not come from my machine. Rather, someone us masquerading as my email account. My ISP detected that the email was sent from a subnet in Texas, but that really doesn't mean anything. I suggested to my ISP that they set up a simple IDS that would log IP addresses of the ten top packet sources and targets and make an hourly report. I hope that they do that. My connection is dial up so I can't sniff packets from my machine.
I am running SuSE 9.1 Linux with all of the security updates. I use Mozilla 1.7.1 for browser and KDE Kmail for email.
Any more information about this would be appreciated.
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