sendmail: possible SMTP attack??

[Kevin Miller]

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Gang,
> 
> I've been seeing a ton of "possible SMTP attack" syslog messages
> from sendmail for the last couple of days, from all over the
> place (mostly Isreal and Brazil).  Normally, I almost never see
> this message from sendmail.  Anybody else seeing this?  New
> email virus???  Any other ideas?
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College

Yeah - I see about 165 since yesterday.  Mine are coming from .il and
.cz mostly; other addresses don't have country codes...

...Kevin
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