sources.redhat.com used to send spam. Sigh.

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue May 20 16:17:00 GMT 2003


Some enterprising spammer or spammers found out that we had mailform.pl
installed and spent part of yesterday and some of today sending out
email to all and sundry.

When I discovered this, I shut down httpd and qmail, removed
mailform.pl, and swept through the 6000+ messages in the queue, removing
any obvious spam.

I will be blocking http access for all of the sites that used
mailform.pl, ASAP, too.

Now we just have to wait for the collateral damage and see how many
blacklists we get on.  Sigh.

cgf



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