Re: floods through our proxy

From: mms (incidents_at_mmsw.org)
Date: 07/30/03

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To: Jon Zobrist <jzobrist@contentwatch.com>

    Jon Zobrist <jzobrist@contentwatch.com> wrote on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:47:45PM -0600:
    ¡ We have an old software proxy that clients surfed through.
    ¡ It's discontinued and normally we have 50 clients or less still trying
    ¡ to use it. In the last hour it's climbed to over 3000 so I did some
    ¡ investigating.

    This happens to us when the users install Gator or some other spyware.
    A single Gator installation can make >4,000 requests per day. Check the
    url being requested. 

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Matthew Southworth
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