Re: [OT] HELP!!! mail attack

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Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 27.03.2008, 00:17 +0900 schrieb John Summerfield:
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
Ok, the problem is that the content is really random... I tried to found
common words:
http://www.padep.org.bo/log20080325/log/words4-sort_-_n
thanks, anyway...
The recipient address I thought was common. Does it not appear in the headers?

Of course. I've already deleted the account yesterday, anyway, which
causes a similar effect in terms of bandwidth, but the attempts are so
That occurred to me after I sent.

many, that some moments takes 20% of my current bandwidth... My concern
are:

Back to munging the lots and figuring out the attacking IP addresses, etc as I outlined already.


a) we could suffer a new attack with other account. b) i need to restore that account.
Give the user a new account. When things quieten down, use a alias to catch email for the old address.


Thanks!


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