Illegal use of my server??

[Bryan Vyhmeister]

I don't quite understand what happened. How was Squid used to relay 
mail? I'm glad this thread came up because I am just about to deploy a 
Squid cache.

Bryan

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 11:18 AM, Joseph T. Klein wrote:

> The Squid package and port should have a *big* warning sign on them 
> about this.
> I know of at least one network that was blacklisted due to the lack of 
> tight
> ACLs on Squid.
>
> On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 01:09  PM, Tony Saign wrote:
>
>> Any legal gurus out there??
>>
>> Long story, but I'll summarize;
>>
>> On Friday 05/16 my T1 went down.
>> In troubleshooting attempts it was discovered that a machine, on my
>> network was being used maliciously.
>> Not hacked, but Squid was being used to relay mail (i.e. SPAM).
>> The machine was immediately brought down, and Squid was disabled.
>>
>> I received a call from my ISP, and they are NOT happy.
>> Looking @ the logs, it appears that several thousand SPAM emails may
>> have been sent.
>>
>> What should I do? Can I pursue each ISP in attempts to track down the
>> guilty parties?
>> Can I take any legal action against them?
>> This is the last straw! I'm so frickin' sick of SPAM, and now people
>> potentially got some w/ my IP address!
>> Grrr!!!
>>
>> Any suggestions, advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
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