[cobalt-security] Weird user on my SMTP

[Lawrence Frewin of Accommodation.com]

Have you tried

netstat -ap | grep "*:*"

which will show the process & PID?

LF
 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ICDServers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: [cobalt-security] RE: Weird user on my SMTP


> Carrie wrote:
> 
> > When I use Netstat -a to see what's happening on my box i keep
> seeing this
> > user on my smtp port.
> > tcp        0      0 128.242.221.53:smtp     213.201.148.18:62702
> > TIME_WAIT
> 
> >After you added him to your hosts.deny file, did you try turning off
> >email so that he'd be disconnected, then turning it back on?
> 
> Yep, did that, didn't seem to work.
> 
> 
> >You might also want to check your email parameters and make sure this
> >IP isn't allowed to send out mail; could be that he's hooked up to you
> >and using you for a spam machine. (Make sure that he's listed in the
> >GUI for not being able to connect also.)
> 
> Did that too, also doesn't seem to help. Very strange !
> 
>  How recently have you done a
> >check to see if you've been haqd?
> 
> Yesterday as I was checking my raq for hacks I discovered this.
> Have you got any tips or clues to trace how long this has been so ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Broerse
> ICDServers
> 
> >CarrieB
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