Illegal use of my server??

[Joseph T. Klein]

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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