Re: Removal of IP

[Brian Longwe <brian at pch.net>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Sunday Folayan wrote:
> They spam using http not smtp. smtp is blocked, but you cannot do that for
> http. They don't send one, they have programs that send thousands within
> an hour, just changing recipient addresses. BTW. I also get some addressed
> to me, since I figure they bought addresses on CD.
>

One of our clients had an open http proxy which was exploited as a launch
pad for spam - it took us three hours to detect and close the hole -
within which time approx 30,000 messages had been generated - this stuff
is deadly!

Longwe


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