Well, There are many 29 email attempts from different sources. each ine of them attempts 29 emails and then disconnects. What is strange, as oposed to your theory, is the simple fact, that none of these 29-email groupes, from very different mailers contain similar/repeate names. they are all different. If many spammers would be working off the same list, i would get the same names attempted over and over again, right ? well i am not. Cheers Szemir
On January 4, 2004 15:52, Niels Voll wrote: > I see this on my server, too, although the numbers are slightly higher > for me. And yes, I have read somewhere, that e-mail guessing robots are > all the rage these days. However another explanation could be, that > people are buying spamming e-mail address lists with bogus (generated) > emails. So they might be attempted spams with these bogus mailing lists > as their source. There was a thing on slashdot on that just the other day. > > I'm very interested in other people's experiences. too. > > ...Niels > > bogi wrote: > >Hi > > > >I have noticed a strange trend in some of my servers mail logfiles. > > > >The phenomina consistes of 29 (exactly and every time) emails > >addressed to (nonexsistent) 29 different usernames. Since i hardly > >have users on my system, these emails get bounced. > >The sender is allways different, but the 29 email names never repeate, > >suggesting to me a distributed email-guessing attempt directed from a > >centeral name-list anf performed by different end-users 29 names at a > > time. > > > >So my question is: Is this something new, do any other sysadmins see this > > ? and if it is not new, then what is it, and how to guard against it ?? > > > >Cheers > >Szemir > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
