Spammers shut me down

Spammers have shut me down. My mail server cannot cope with a million and a half “Joe Job” bounce messages. I’ve temporarily shut down my mail server, and I may yet have to turn off the web server.

Somebody out there is really ramping this pain up. I can’t handle 100,000 emails an hour.

Desparately yours,
Matt

Spammers have shut me down. My mail server cannot cope with a million and a half “Joe Job” bounce messages. I’ve temporarily shut down my mail server, and I may yet have to turn off the web server.

Somebody out there is really ramping this pain up. I can’t handle 100,000 emails an hour.

Desparately yours, Matt

2 thoughts on “Spammers shut me down”

  1. Not a joe job…

    It’s not a joe job… it’s a spammer exploiting one of my web sites, I think. It’s what I get for not keeping all my software up-to-date, I suppose. I’m going to be combing my logs to figure out what’s causing it, but all the messages are from “www@barnson.org”.

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    Matthew P. Barnson

  2. Script

    So the spammer somehow managed to launch a perl script as user “www” on my web server which was traversing the entire 200.* network, sending as many spams as fast as it could.

    I don’t know where the script lives, but I consider this server compromised. I am moving it tonight to another host.

    Sorry for any downtime, in advance.

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    Matthew P. Barnson

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