a resounding yes. You will want to disable PC Anywhere if you can,
especially if this computer is connected to the internet directly. PC
Anywhere is notorious for holes.
-Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 5:52 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Off topic need to restrict hacker
> Sorry about off topic. My imail homepage appears to be a hacker target.
He keeps replacing my homepage wiht a stupid html page.
>
> I am on win2K iis 5. How do these guys get in. Any advice on what I can
read to stop this. I just installed pc anywhere & I am wondering if this is
related. Any advice appreciated.
>
> Jeff
>
> the url is www.asianpride.com. His stupid announcement is at
www.asianpride.com/default2.htm
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Dan Shadix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:30:39 -0600
>
> >Actually, McAfee WebShield SMTP has a pretty nice anti-relay feature.
For
> >our small site (<250 users) it runs just fine on the same server as
Imail.
> >The content filters are much easier to set up than Imail's, but may not
be
> >as flexible. No SMTP Auth though.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:54 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] AntiRelay
> >
> >
> >
> >>We are running Trend Interscan and I want to know how to lock down our
> >Imail
> >>server to stop relaying. Interscan runs on port 25 and forwards all
email
> >to
> >>port 10025 where IMail resides. The problem with using the 'accept.txt'
> >file
> >>is that you need to specifiy individual users who can relay, you cant
just
> >>put @xyz.com or @abc.com. Is there anyway around this? At present I have
a
> >>open relay :(
> >
> >Let' see if I can't add a few "(" to that singular ":("
> >
> >The pb I've heard with these av scanners front-ending to Internet is
> >that they have no anti-relay. They accept everything, so the RSS &
> >ORBS probes conclude the server is open relay. :((
> >
> >afaics, closing the relay of Imail does nothing in this above situation.
> >:(((
> >
> >The other pb with AVS + Imail on same machine is SMTP AUTH. You tell
> >your users to send their outgoing to Imail.domain.com but :25 is the
> >AV thingy, and he can't do SMTP AUTH since he doesn't know about your
> >users, only about domains. :((((
> >
> >Of course, these av scannners are horribly CPU and disk expensive, so
> >if you're doing also-expensive Web messaging all on the same box,
> >you're stepping in it. :(((((
> >
> >"Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
> >
> >Whatever, to close relay in Imail:
> >
> >1. at you border route, block spoofing of your internal ip's.
> >
> >2. in Imail, "relay for addresses" and enter your adddresses
> >
> >3. in Imail, NT hosts file, enter your default ip and imail host name.
> >
> >4. in Imail, UNcheck Disable SMTP AUTH reporting
> >
> >5. in your users' mail programs, activate SMTP AUTH
> >
> >Get smart, Phil:
> >
> >1. put the AV on its own box, with hostname avbox.ISPdomain.com
> >
> >2. put Imail on its own box.
> >
> >In DNS:
> >
> >domain.com. MX 10 avbox.ISPdomain.com.
> >mail.domain.com. MX 10 avbox.ISPdomain.com.
> >smtp.domain.com. MX 20 smtp.domain.com.
> >
> >pop.domain.com. A ip of Imail
> >smtp.domain.com. A ip of Imail
> >webmail.domain.com. A ip of imail
> >
> >Tell you web surfer to pick up their mail here: http://webmail.domain.com
> >
> >Tell your users of mail programs:
> >
> >1. Turn on SMTP AUTH
> >2. send outgoing mail to: smtp.domain.com
> >3. read POP3 mail at: pop.domain.com
> >
> >Len
> >
> >
> >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4
> >http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways
> >
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