Oh I hear that John, I'm a big fan of Declude Virus and Junkmail - as soon as I got over the shock (and embarrassment of being exploited this way) and changed some passwords, I got approval for the purchase of Hijack.

At 12:51 PM 1/20/2003, you wrote:
> The SMTPD line showing authentication has a different session ID (or PID
> not sure what to call it) than the rest of the session, and it was mixed
> among other entries, so I missed it. In this one session there were many
(I
> haven't counted yet) pieces of mail sent out, followed by several more
> authenticated sessions with this account - so if I had missed that first
> connection, it would have just looked like a ton of unauthenticated
> messages getting relayed through.
>
> Ultimately, the culprit - a forgotten mailbox, that had been set to
forward
> elsewhere, that had a default password of 'password'

In this kind of case, Declude Hijack would play a part in protecting as it
would see these messages outgoing from that user and would track them and
take action.

John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
IT Manager, Network Engineer
RelianceSoft, Inc.
Fullerton, CA  92835
www.reliancesoft.com




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