Re: [fd] Re: SoBig.F strange problem

["Mike Vasquez" <mike () blakogre com>]

Hrm.  So you send emails to the sender, when the sender was forged, creating
more unnecessary traffic.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Clowater" <steve () stevesworld hopto org>
To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>

> I started getting 1000-2000 an hour yesterday, I just went to all the
border
> routers and put a filter on 25 to drop those connections and send a notice
to
> the From feild of the smtp query, and a QUIT to the mailserver it was
> connecting to.
>
> I'd recomend doing this, its easy to do in freeBSD, all my borders are
>  freeBSD so I havent tried it on anything else yet :)

Hrm.  Substitute Windows for freeBSD and this is the same flawed argument
that people claim MCSE's make.

Just because it's easy to do, doesn't mean some thought isn't required.

Maybe *nix admins are human after all.


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