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Date:      Sun, 15 May 2005 13:13:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Jerry Bell" <jbell@stelesys.com>
To:        "Kevin Pang" <kevin@vokaboly.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spam Problems
Message-ID:  <2652.24.98.86.57.1116177233.squirrel@24.98.86.57>
In-Reply-To: <004001c5596f$89139110$6402a8c0@kevin>
References:  <004001c5596f$89139110$6402a8c0@kevin>

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> web script. The sender was specified as "www@myhost.com" according to the
> complaint email. I use phpBB, vBulletin and Awstats.

Most likely the attacker used a flaw in phpBB or awstats.  Are you running
the latest versions of those?  Otherwise, it is possible they found a
vulnerability in something else you were running, like apache, php, etc.

Jerry
http://www.syslog.org



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