my computer is a spam machine
I am a mac os X user, and I have been noticing that at 3am every morning, my hard drive goes nuts, and I went to the unix terminal and found that a program POSTQUEUE and MAILQ were running... When killing these files, the hard drive would cease to make noise and my system power would be back to normal...
Tonight, I was configuring pine on my system, and using it to send mail via Localhost, and when I sent out an email, I heard the 3am noise (even though it was only midnight!).. And so I typed mailq in the terminal, and there I saw the horrific thing of my computer sending out hundreds of emails to random AOL addresses.. and I realized my computer is a spam machine..............................
And I don't know what to do to stop this.. I
I tried doing a relay test at abuse.net/relay.html -- but it said the test failed... Which I don't know if thats a good thing or not...
I checked my var/log/
and all I see is:
Aug 28 16:12:06 Rufus postfix/qmgr[2329]: 04C1B1A8EB9: to=<adidas8004@aol.com>, relay=none, delay=11390675, status=deferred (connect to mailin-02.mx.aol.com[205.188.156.249]: server refused mail service)
Aug 28 16:12:06 Rufus postfix/qmgr[2329]: 04C1B1A8EB9: to=<adidas8005@aol.com>, relay=none, delay=11390675, status=deferred (connect to mailin-02.mx.aol.com[205.188.156.249]: server refused mail service)
Aug 28 16:12:06 Rufus postfix/qmgr[2329]: 04C1B1A8EB9: from=<gfmypxuc2@aol.com>, status=expired, returned to sender
forever and ever and ever...
which is quite similar to what I saw seeing when I ran mailq...
So my question is, obviously somewhere in my computer is a schuled program that starts sending mail at 3am every morning... How can I find this and remove it.. ?? I tried disabling postfix enabler, and then enabling it again.. But when i type in mailq at the terminal, it starts going through all the spam stuff and my hard drive goes crazy...
Please someone give me some advice on how I can undo this mess...
Please email me or AIM me (patrickco@aol.com)
-patrick
