Re: stopping telnet

From: Brad Olin (bwo_at_bwo1.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:26:50 GMT

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:58:43 +0200, "rb" <me@u.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the response. My problem is that I suspect that someone is
>telnetting into our mail server and dropping off mydoom viruses. I have
>disabled mailrelay on our server. So I can only think that the culprit is
>spoofing the address in order to drp this onto our server.
>

This is starting to sound to me more like a email related
question/problem. A good share of the virus have the ability to spread
themselves via email. Have you looked into this as a spam email issue?

I could be wrong on this, but I don't think anybody would be taking the
time to telnet to your box and manually dropping off emails with virus.
It seems more likely it's an actual virus that has smpt support.

Brad 

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Bradley W. Olin
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