Hi, You can try blocking this machine by using iptables on your proxy machine.
Care. Sumanth On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Kwan Chee Kin wrote: # Hi, # I hope i'm mailing to the correct mailing list. # # Lately my network was attacked by the Opaserv virus. This virus has # the ability to grab the configuration from the Netscape browser and makes a # http request for www.opasoft.com (a bogus URL)going through the Web Proxy, # in which is the Squid Web Proxy. The infected host will try to make at least # 100 hits/minute to the bogus URL through the Squid. This affect the squid # logs - access.log and store.log. It grew to a few Gigs within hours. # # The Squid was dropped to its knees and lie dead since there was no # more diskspace in the machine. I was able to clean up the machine by # removing the huge log files and creating new log files and proceed on to # remove the pcs that were infected by the virus. # # My question will be is there any solution to this type of problem # where the squid will just drop requests that have more than 30 hits to a # bogus or unreachable URL and not log into the logs? # # Or is there any third-party solution like a plug-in that will solve # this problem? # # Any suggestion appreciated. Thank you. # # Best regards, # Kwan Chee Kin # # # # #