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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:54:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Joseph Koening (jWeb)" <joe@jwebmedia.com>
To:        joe@jwebmedia.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: locating origin of spammer
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Right after I posted this I did locate an old version of formmail.pl and
disabled it until the customer can replace it with a more secure version.
Thanks.

> I got up this morning and discovered that someone sent some spam through
> one of my servers. The messages were sent from the 'www' user on
> localhost, which is leading me to think somewhere someone has an insecure
> php or perl script that is allowing someone to designate the recipient,
> the subject, body, etc. I know the machine is not open-relay (I tested it
> to double check) and I checked to make sure no one had actually logged in.
> I grepped all of apache's log files looking for sites that received hits
> about the same time the mail started going out. What else can I do to find
> how the mail is being sent? Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
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