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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Please help my computer has been compromised Post 302895185 by Neo on Saturday 29th of March 2014 04:17:28 AM
Old 03-29-2014
Seems the main thing you are worried about is that someone is reading your emails on your computer; but you do not mention specifically what email account you are using or how you access email.

If you are worried a relative is reading emails that are sensitive and related to that relative (like in a divorce proceeding), you should set up a separate email account that is unknown to your relative (like a new gmail or yahoo account) and use that new account to communicate with your lawyer.

If you want to be even more safe, do not use your computer at home to communicate with this new email account.

It's not possible for us to know to any degree of certainty if your home computer or your accounts have been compromised; so it is best to assume they have been compromised (since you are in a sensitive situation) and you should not do sensitive work on that computer until such time you are 100% sure your home computer is safe and secure from others.
 

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2004-04-15

      mailping

      0.0.4

MAILPING-STORE(1)						     Mailping							 MAILPING-STORE(1)

NAME
mailping-store - store email from stdin to a mailping incoming maildir SYNOPSIS
mailping-store DESCRIPTION
mailping-store reads an email from standard input and writes it into a maildir chosen according to following logic: 1. If EXTENSION is not set, select Maildir. 2. If EXTENSION is set, ensure its value is safe to use, and select EXTENSION/incoming. mailping-store is usually run from a .forward file, and thus the filenames above are relative to the home directory of the account in question. Normal use Normally, mailping-store is used to ease the setup of new circuits to probe from mailping-cron. This is done with a system account mailping using <mailping@yourhost.example.com> as the from address, and <mailping+circuitname@yourhost.example.com> (or some remote address aliased to that) as the to address. In fact, these are the default values for from and to, so you can just skip creating those configuration files. This allows adding new test circuits without any changes to the email configuration. FILES
/var/lib/mailping/state/circuit/incoming Maildir to store the email to. /var/lib/mailping/state/Maildir/ Maildir to store the email to, if no extension was given. ENVIRONMENT
MAILPING_STATEDIR Override the location of the state directory. Circuit states are stored in the state subdirectory of this directory, in subdirectories named after the circuit name. Default: /var/lib/mailping EXTENSION Name of the current circuit to store the mail for. SEE ALSO
mailping-cron(1), mailping-success(1), mailping-latency(1) AUTHOR
Tommi Virtanen <tv@havoc.fi> Havoc Consulting Author. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Havoc Consulting mailping 0. 2004-04-15 MAILPING-STORE(1)
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