Re: Removal of IP

[antonio at nambu.uem.mz]

How were they exploiting the proxy?

Cheers,



On 5 May 2003 at 1:45, Brian Longwe wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Sunday Folayan wrote:
> > They spam using http not smtp. smtp is blocked, but you cannot do that for
> > http. They don't send one, they have programs that send thousands within
> > an hour, just changing recipient addresses. BTW. I also get some addressed
> > to me, since I figure they bought addresses on CD.
> >
> 
> One of our clients had an open http proxy which was exploited as a launch
> pad for spam - it took us three hours to detect and close the hole -
> within which time approx 30,000 messages had been generated - this stuff
> is deadly!
> 
> Longwe
> 
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