Viruses from one IP - trend? {Scanned}

[Scott Silva]

Vispan will do it automagigally.
Been using it for a couple of months, and it has cut the mail load about 30%
or more.



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From: "Matthew K Bowman" <mkbowman at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Viruses from one IP - trend? {Scanned}


Kevin Old wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>I've been using MailScanner for quite some time and love it!  Thanks
>to all who contribute to it.
>
>I've recently seen a new trend on my mail server and wondered if
>others experience it.  On two separate occations, I've started
>receiving viruses from one IP that "chose" my server to "hammer" with
>viruses.  The most recent "outbreak" had them coming at 7+ messages
>per minute.  The virus caught by both ClamAV and F-Prot was Zafi.B.
>
>Again, all of the messages were from the same IP (as reported in the
>MailScanner report for each virus caught).  The only thing I found odd
>was that in both cases the IP's that were reported weren't spoofed!
>They were the actual IP's.
>
>To remedy the situation, I ended up blocking all traffic from that IP
>in my firewall and the "attacks" stop instantly.
>
>Just wondering if anyone else had these experiences....
>
>Thanks,
>Kevin
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>Kevin Old
>kevinold at gmail.com
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Yes indeed. Same virus too. I actually got blasted from 2 different IP
addresses and did a couple of things

1. blacklisted their IP forcing the email to be tagged as {SPAM?} and
spam action to delete
2. put their IP in /etc/mail/access with 'DENY'

Is there a way to automatically block floods of virus from 1 IP addres.
perhps a new action called 'Virus Flood'
Actions are delete, quarantine etc?

Maybe there is and I've overlooked this..Apologies if thats the case.

Matthew

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