looking for a spammer/virii/malware .... on my system

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Mon Aug 15 22:47:57 UTC 2011


--On August 15, 2011 2:04:27 PM -0400 alexus <alexus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I personally leaning towards that these headers are being modified and
> that there is no spam leaving my box (I may be wrong of couse)
>
> here is what I did to come up with that thought....
>
> I sent myself an email
>

The tcpdump command that Chuck gave you is all you need.  *If* all traffic 
exits your network through your box, you will see anything going to port 25 
*anywhere*.  That should tell you quickly what the problem is, if there is 
one.

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