[GRLUG] Email overload

[Don Wood]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 15:52 -0400, Don Wood wrote:

> There are alot more bots now and once they cull your and everyone
> else's address book on your network it's all over but the crying. I
> had a rootkit mailbot on a windows machine here a couple months ago
> and a faulty firewall rule that wasn't blocking outgoing smtp traffic
> except from our email server. The amount of connections was pretty
> amazing and I still get rejection mail from time to time. 
> 
> -  
> Don Wood
> IT Admin
> Standale Lumber
> 616.340.2383 mobile
> 616.530.1145 desk
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 15:48 -0400, Casey DuBois wrote: 
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Collin <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > This is sort of off topic but sort of on topic...
> > > >
> > > > I'm getting hundreds upon hundreds of bounce messages from all
> > over the
> > > > world today. Someone used our email domain as the sender address
> > for not
> > > > so nice emails (they didn't use our server they just claim to be
> > us).
> > > > Normally it isn't bad but today is terrible. Anyone else getting
> > this?
> > > > If it's on going what's the best course of action? ignore it?
> > Use a mail
> > > > filter to trashcan it (though legit bounce messages would be
> > lost too)?
> > > >
> > > > I've tried sending this message to the list many times. My other
> > posts
> > > > show up but nothing on this topic... Maybe it was previously
> > that I put
> > > > in the word for fake canned meat or put in an example email
> > address...
> > > > Whatever is doing it ITS ANNOYING.
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> > >
> > > I don't really have an answer for you, but I noticed that our
> > incoming spam
> > > jumped up 100% in the last 2 days. It is up 1000% since the
> > beginning of the
> > > year. I was hoping the flood would abate, but it seems to only be
> > getting
> > > worse.
> > >
> > >
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> > 
> > I have also noticed a huge jump in the spam I receive from someone
> > using my e-mail and have been concerned about it.
> > My techs say not to worry but Collin's post makes me wonder if there
> > is something we may be missing.
> > 
> > Casey
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Argh! Top posted!

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