Damn Spamstards!!!
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You guys won’t believe this! Some dirty mofing spammers used *my* home machine to send spam. I got curious after I found a lot of suspicious modem activity when I wasn’t doing anything on the net. A netstat revealed dozens of SMTP connections and a further inspection of my mail queue revealed the startling and horrible truth. I had stupidly enabled relaying on my SMTP at home. Now I’ve set it to accept only localhost connections! But what I don’t understand is how they managed to get my IP. It’s not even a static IP, it keeps changing every few days! These spamming bastards must be traced and destroyed!!! And my already slow net connection was being used to send out dozens of spam mails in the last few days! Nish [in a very pissed off mood] :mad:
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
I've just read this thread with a rapidly sinking heart. This could go a long way to explaining why I've twice recently had several Mb of nothing going out on the line; and Daniel's message could also go a long way to explaining why my outgoing mail (configured to use my SMTP rather than my email provider's) has been struggling to contact Hotmail addresses lately. Awwwwwwwwww CRUD! Thanks Nish, at least now I know how to stop it happening again. Paul Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see - Led Zeppelin, Misty Mountain Hop
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You guys won’t believe this! Some dirty mofing spammers used *my* home machine to send spam. I got curious after I found a lot of suspicious modem activity when I wasn’t doing anything on the net. A netstat revealed dozens of SMTP connections and a further inspection of my mail queue revealed the startling and horrible truth. I had stupidly enabled relaying on my SMTP at home. Now I’ve set it to accept only localhost connections! But what I don’t understand is how they managed to get my IP. It’s not even a static IP, it keeps changing every few days! These spamming bastards must be traced and destroyed!!! And my already slow net connection was being used to send out dozens of spam mails in the last few days! Nish [in a very pissed off mood] :mad:
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
Nishant S wrote: And my already slow net connection was being used to send out dozens of spam mails in the last few days! try to use a firewall or something Nish. Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
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I've just read this thread with a rapidly sinking heart. This could go a long way to explaining why I've twice recently had several Mb of nothing going out on the line; and Daniel's message could also go a long way to explaining why my outgoing mail (configured to use my SMTP rather than my email provider's) has been struggling to contact Hotmail addresses lately. Awwwwwwwwww CRUD! Thanks Nish, at least now I know how to stop it happening again. Paul Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see - Led Zeppelin, Misty Mountain Hop
Paul Riley wrote: Thanks Nish, at least now I know how to stop it happening again. Nice to hear that I am not the lone victim. And glad that my post opened up your eyes a little. Now we are brothers-in-arms eh? Nish :-)
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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Paul Riley wrote: Thanks Nish, at least now I know how to stop it happening again. Nice to hear that I am not the lone victim. And glad that my post opened up your eyes a little. Now we are brothers-in-arms eh? Nish :-)
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
Nishant S wrote: Now we are brothers-in-arms eh? Hehe! If by that you mean that you want to break someone's arm for doing such a thing... yeah, I'm right with ya :-D Paul Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see - Led Zeppelin, Misty Mountain Hop