spam alert

[Gerard Seibert]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:29:03 -0400 "Robert" <pcsurplus at sc.rr.com> wrote:

||>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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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:39:26 PM

I use Zone Alarm on all of my Windows based PC's. Assuming that you are
not using the free; i.e., basically useless version, there is no reason
to have to disable it for any reason. I would seriously suggest that you
look into how you have it configured. Zone Alarm has an excellent forum
where you can post questions. Their online support is not too bad, but
it is not the quickest in the world when it comes to getting a speedy
reply.

As always, YMMV.

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Gerard Seibert
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