North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Weird distributed spam attack
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:40:50AM -0800, Joe St Sauver wrote: > In addition to thousands of open relays, which are bad enough in > their own right, there are also thousands of open proxy servers > which a growing number of spammers have been using to launch spam > runs lately. I suspect that's what you're seeing. I agree--that's a strong possibility. This week, I released a tool to test open proxies. <http://www.unicom.com/sw/pxytest> > [I will also say that it would really be great if mail-abuse.org would > add an open proxy listing project to complement their RSS, DUL, and > other initiatives.] I believe RBL will list open proxies. Another good resource is the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor (BOPM) <http://www.blitzed.org/bopm/>. -- Chip Rosenthal * [email protected] * http://www.unicom.com/ Lawsuit Update: I Win, Domain Hijackers Lose * http://save.unicom.com/
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