24 Mar
2003
24 Mar
'03
3:39 a.m.
Craig Spiers
Spammers find open proxy's in a matter of hours these days.. perhaps staff recieved the notifications, but didnt give a dam?
Dunno. It seems most admins are aware of email relaying, but not open proxies still. Last year, a spammer carpet-bombed IDG accounts through an open proxy in Australia, and I had tough time convincing the people responsible that their machine was open to abuse, because they clung onto the idea that their "email server didn't allow relaying"... That proxy stayed open for almost three months, IIRC. -- Juha