Mail Attack

Aroop Maliakkal mparoop at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 16:09:02 UTC 2005


Hi,

The <> messages are bounced messages. Someone may be spammed from your 
server and those address falied is bouncing back now. Make sure your 
server is secure and no one abusing it. Check for malicious scripts ...( 
expecially in /tmp..)...
Have a nice hunting:-)
Jessica Zhu wrote:

>Hi,
>
>It looks like we are experiencing the mail attack now.
>
>In our maillog, we have a lot of User Unknown message like the following.
>
>Aug 23 11:52:25  s1 sendmail[2110]: j7NFqPL02110:  
><Oscard at mathforum.org>... User unknown
>Aug 23 11:52:25 s1 sendmail[2110]: j7NFqPL02110: from=<>, 
>size=17601, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,  
>relay=mail.vis-inc.net [66.77.28.202]
>
>It looks like that all the from is <>, does anyone have the way to fight 
>against it. 
>
>Jessica
>
>  
>




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