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Re: Help please


From: "Alan L. Waller" <waller () osb1 wff nasa gov>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:14:20 -0500

What are you seeing in /var/log/httpd/access_log? Do you have formmail.pl installed in /var/www/cgi-bin? If so you may have been used as an open relay to forward spam. Grep /var/log/httpd/access_log for w00t that is the message the formail vulnerable scanners return to the source of the scan.

Al


At 02:41 PM 2/2/2002 -0500, Ryan Hairyes wrote:
Hello all.


I am having some trouble and would like to know if someone can help me out.
Right now my mailserver (RedHat 7.2) is being used by unwanted guest to
attack adult sites via port 80 (Apache 1.3.20).  When I run a netstat -an
on my system I can "see" them connected to my machine.  I have snort and
have run that as well and sure  enough they are there.  It seems as though
they are using my apache to do brute force password cracking on these adult
sites.  Thanks in advance.

Ryan


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Ryan Hairyes
Network Administrator -- Lee County School System
919.774.6226 x 1252
rhairyes () lee k12 nc us



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