[OT] HELP!!! mail attack

[John Summerfield]

Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 27.03.2008, 00:17 +0900 schrieb John Summerfield:
>> Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
>>> Ok, the problem is that the content is really random... I tried to found
>>> common words:
>>> http://www.padep.org.bo/log20080325/log/words4-sort_-_n
>>> thanks, anyway...
>> The recipient address I thought was common. Does it not appear in the 
>> headers?
> 
> Of course. I've already deleted the account yesterday, anyway, which
> causes a similar effect in terms of bandwidth, but the attempts are so
That occurred to me after I sent.

> many, that some moments takes 20% of my current bandwidth... My concern
> are:

Back to munging the lots and figuring out the attacking IP addresses, 
etc as I outlined already.


> a) we could suffer a new attack with other account. 
> b) i need to restore that account.
Give the user a new account. When things quieten down, use a alias to 
catch email for the old address.

> 
> Thanks!


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