[wplug] Breakin attempts against the nobody account

Chris Ott cott at acclamation.com
Mon Mar 28 15:23:00 EST 2005


Jonathan Billings wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't blame the Koreans for the spam.  I've heard that there are
> simply many broadband users there, and their systems have been
> compromised and used as spam relays.  For the most part, I'd bet that
> most of the spam that you're getting from those countries are
> initiated by US citizens.

The last time I checked, roughly half of our spam was coming from what 
were apparently compromised machines in the US. The big spam houses that 
emailed you directly (azoogle, for instance) were easy to block, because 
they had relatively few addresses.

Chris




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