[wplug] Any Suggestion for DSL Service for Linux?

[Richard A. Bilonick]

John,

If they used my machine to relay mail, does that mean they've broken into the
system?

Rick Bilonick

jmh3 at linuxfreak.com wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
>
> > I've had @Home for 2 or 3 years now and had beenr reasonably happy. That is,
> > until I received an e-mail from them accusing me of running a mail server and
> > sending span. They said someone complained that I was sending them spam. I sent
> > them an e-mail asking who made this claim. So far I've haven't heard back from
> > them (it's been over 1 week). As far as I can tell, I don't have a mail server
> > running on my computer and I know I'm not spamming anyone.
>
> if you are running sendmail, it is possible for your computer to be used
> as a mail relay. this would enable people to send spam from your computer,
> and it would appear that the spam was coming from you. a simple port scan
> of your subnet would tell a would be spammer which ip's had mail
> servers. by default redhat/mandrake come with sendmail turned on. you
> could SAINT to scan your computer and tell you what services are running.
>
> john
>
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