Might I have spyware on FC6? This is very suspicious.

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Sun Apr 15 20:13:53 UTC 2007


On Sunday 15 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Today, I received 9 very similar spam messages to 9
> different email addresses. These addresses have
> absolutely nothing in common, other than the fact that
> they are all in To addresses in email in my Kmail
> folders. The only way that an entity would find these
> addresses together would be if it had access to my ~/.kde
> folders, in other words read access to my computer.
>
> Might I have spyware on this FC6 installation? What would
> be the first things to check? Steps to take?

Maybe you have used these addresses for out bound mail and 
the spammers have harvested these addresses over time and 
they have found their way to the same spam list. So maybe 
nothing is wrong with your system. Maybe it is just 
coincidence that they all got the similar e-mail.

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