----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 07:56
Subject: [Spam - 18]Re: [IMail Forum] Dictionary attacks ??

> But in my recent experience, msgs to unknown recipients more commonly, ie,
> like 24 x 7 x 365 at EVEVRY MX that I admin, comes from wide range of IPs,
> therefore impossible to harvest+block at any level.  In that case (well,
in
> all cases), the best is having a front-end MX do the rejecting.

I can concur with this.  The attacks are going all the time, it's just that
some times it's worse than others.  I've found Fridays are a particularly
popular day.

One odd thing we've noticed sinced implementing IMGate is the number of
viruses getting through has been reduced (and I turned off all extension
filtering in Postfix so .exe, .pif and the like get through).  I suspect
that at least some of these dictionary attacks are being mounted for the
purpose of spreading worms.

-- 
A. Clausen
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