Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:29:03 -0400 From: "Robert" <pcsurplus@sc.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: spam alert Message-ID: <000801c53ffa$7cdb7c20$a9325818@sambo>
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got a message from my ISP saying that my email address was sending out = spam, possibly from a trojan on my pc that was allowing a remote program = to access my SMTP server and send email without my knowledge. I was = shocked since I'm running ZoneAlarm and don't remember getting any = alerts about a program accessing my email. I ran Norton's and it didn't = find anything. BUT it was blocking a heap of outgoing emails with = "sexually explicit content" after I disabled ZoneAlarm. So ZoneAlarm = must be blocking them when it is on, but periodically I turn it off = because some web pages don't load correctly when I use ZoneAlarm. Well I = disabled ZoneAlarm tonight and right away I got popups from Nortons = alerting me that there were sexually explicit emails trying to be sent = using my mail account, at a rate of about 20 per minute! I turned = ZoneAlarm back on and immediately it told me that IP address = 204.152.184.73 was trying to send emails and make a connection with my = mail server, which of course I blocked. 204.152.184.73 resolves to = freebsd.isc.org. what gives?
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