-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 May 2006 08:00:06 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 02:45, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > I don't think that's what this is. Form spam takes advantage of > > poorly-coded mail/contact forms and uses them to send mail to recipients > > other than those intended by the form designer. > > > > What's happening here is that the spammer is running their own code > > (downloaded into /tmp) to send the mail, a rather more serious > > situation. > > If you have ssh access open there's a fair chance that someone > has done a brute-force password guess. There is a lot of > that going around. Or you didn't apply all of the current > updates before exposing the system to the internet. > ssh is turned off. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEcymJfw3TK8jhZrsRAkqvAJ4+CDmtB1cPkthxSc/5DjixZaq/6ACcDlA2 4f5xbX8Bn/gVv+9fh7A2vkA= =sWKw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
