Hacked

[blast1102]

I have a PC running Norton and Zone alarm, its behind a Linksys firewall and I think its still compromised.

It is mass mailing but not from my address book like a virus, but on a grand scale, going thru all possible combinations using letters numbers and characters.

It only shows up when it sends to non existent email addresses.

I think that it has been hacked and is being used for mass mailing and not that it has a virus.

Anyone have any ideas on how to stop it.

I have run anti virus software and anti ad ware software, nothing. The only thing I can do at the moment is shut down the pop3 server, but then I can not tell if it is still happening.
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Tom

[olly86]

congratulations, you've succeeded in setting up a spam really :D

if your smtp server is accessible from the internet without password protection, anyone can connect, and send emails through your server. to prevent this you must either set it to only accept connections from "localhost", OR password protect your smtp server.

many ISP's will disconnect you, if they detect this type of activity.
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Olly

[blast1102]

The SMPT server is open to the internet, but is password protected. I can not say how good the passwords are as its not my setup!

For now its unpluged.

Thankyou for your comment's.

Tom
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Tom

[senshi]