I see it all the time. Here is some useful information: http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/formmail.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] SPAM / DOS attack -- from Virginia > We've had someone spamming / attacking our network last night / today. > We finally tracked it down. They were "relaying" off of a formmail script > on a website. > Found about 120 instances of BLAT.exe running. > > Killed the site. Brought it back up. Started again. > > I've since blocked the IP addresses being used and so far, so good. > > Anyone see this kind of abuse / attack / "relay" before? > Any good way to block the abuse of someone's formmail or other script? > > Also, I've tracked this down to a provider in Virginia. Don't they have > some tough > laws down there? Anyone familiar with it and what can realistically be > done there? > > Thanks > > Chris > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
