ISPS UNITE TO FEND OFF SPAM TOOL - Wired 3/11/99
<http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18383.html>
Some software is too effective for its own good. Take one tool used
by spammers to penetrate regional networks.
After receiving angry protests by Internet service providers, a
software publisher has discontinued a potent tool that collects the
email-address lists maintained by regional ISPs.
At 07:08 PM 3/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Well this has become a major problem. Companies abusing SMTP to scan for
>E-Mail addresses. Check on the link below to see if your Mail Server has
>been hardcoded into this SMTP E-Mail verify Scanner. If it has, I would
>strongly suggest switching to Mailsite 3.2.0 or equivelent with all the
>security features to verify mail servers.
>
>We have locked it down enabling all anti-spam features and we even found
>hundreds of domains with Poorly implemented DNS Records. There are
>basically no reverse lookups for a lot of doamins we got requests from.
>each day I produce about 10mb of logs of failed mail deliveries due to the
>Reverse DNS Lookup of the sending mailserver.
>
>
>Rudy Komsic - President
>Cyberglobe Communications Inc.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bugtraq List [mailto:BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG] On Behalf Of Frank
>> Miller
>> Sent: March 10, 1999 2:25 PM
>> To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
>> Subject: SMTP Abuse - Extracted domains from glpro.exe application
>>
>>
>> Per request, the following URL lists domains hardcoded into the glpro.exe
>> application (version 3.3 trail).
>>
>ftp://ftp.apaynet.com/pub/glpro/glpro.txt
>
>In summary, the glpro.exe application performs, as discussed, a dictionary
>based 'attack' upon MTA's (RCPT/MAIL) in order to obtain a list of addresses
>for UCE's. Approximately 4000 + domains (including isi.edu!!) was noted.
>
>Take care,
>
>Frank Miller
>
>
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