OT Im being bombarded ..

[Matthew Bowman]

In Ohio, USA we are getting bombarded to.  It appears that most of our are
coming from 194.126.102.146 which has been blocked in /etc/mail/access.

Matthew




Carl Boberg <carl.boberg at NRM.SE>
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A friend in Finland has the same thing.

Is this global?

/ C

>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>Behalf Of Denis Croombs
>Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 16:32
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: OT Im being bombarded ..
>
>
>I am seeing the same thing here in the UK !
>
>> Hi,
>> Im as of this moment being bombarded by the I-Worm.Sobig.f virus.
(about
>10-20 virusmails/min)
>> This almost feel like a dos attack but it is way too lame thanks
>to MS :-)
>which is handling
>> things most efficient.
>>
>> Does anybody have any good suggestions about how to trace a thing like
>this?
>> I can see in the full headers where it comes from but its comming from
>diffrent
>> originating (senders/ips) in most of the emails...
>>
>> Or is it impossible due to the openness of smtp?
>>
>