[SGVLUG] I'm being attacked by an email flood from kernel.org

[K. Zachary Abbott]

The easiest explanation:

Quite probably there is a computer somewhere (likely a Windows box, but 
not necessarily) that is infected by a computer virus.
That infected computer has your email address somewhere on the computer, 
and the virus is in fact spoofing your address as the "from" address in 
mail it is sending out.
The virus is for whatever reason targeting kernel.org, and all the 
bounces are coming back to you.

Best of luck on this one....

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
>Of David Lawyer
>Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 10:32 AM
>To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
>Subject: [SGVLUG] I'm being attacked by an email flood from kernel.org
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>For the past couple of days, I've gotten well over 100 emails from
>Majordomo at vger.kernel.org.  Each email says that I've sent them a
>nonsense request, consisting of mostly random letters.  I haven't sent
>them any such requests and perhaps someone is sending requests to them
>and spoofing my email address.  The emails I get include a long help
>file on how to use Majordomo.  I've sent a complaint to the Majordomo
>"owner" but so far no response.  I get such email at intervals ranging
>from a few seconds apart to hours apart.
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>Any suggestions as to what I should do?  In effect, Majordomo is being
>used like an email relay since it deletes the routing information in
>the header so I can't determine where the bogus requests are coming
>from.  I checked on the Internet and only found a message that
>Majordomo could potentially be used for a flooding attack.
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>kernel.org handles about 60 Linux kernel mailing lists thru this
>Majordomo list server.  So this problem is in some sense a "Linux
>Problem".
>			David Lawyer
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