Spam via "innocent" machines

[Brent Addis]

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Check the thread titled "Auslaenderpolitik"

Regards,

Brent Addis
Group Systems Administrator
Times Media Group




Jeff Mills wrote:

>Hi all,
>I'm hoping somebody might be able to help with a problem we've been having lately, but mostly today.
>Some of my users have told us about an increase in spam over the last couple of days.
>One user claims she has received 50 today.
>Mailscanner is not picking up these, and when I check, they are getting scores mostly of around 1, but up to 3.
>
>These emails are in various languages, but most seem to be english and German, pointing to political news pages.
>Looking at the headers, the originating addresses appear to be dialup accounts, adsl accounts etc, which could mean these are household computers affected with a worm of some kind.
>
>The other thing thats happening is that the user will receive 50 odd undeliverable messages which would suggest that their email address was attached to outgoing spam. I dont know how I can block these without affecting legitimate undeliverable messages.
>One thing I have noticed is that of the undeliverable addresses, they all seem to start with "3D".
>For instance 3Dsomename at somehost.com
>
>Are any of you having this same issue?
>
>Cheers,
>Jeff
>
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