>My sys log has tons of this crap (see what follows)...
>
>What's it mean??? Any enlightenment appreciated.
>12:31 07:46 POP3D(00000174) logon failure for gay
>mail.communityspirit.net from 208.33.68.70
This is *NOT* a spammer. It is either someone with seriously misconfigured software,
or more likely, a DoS attack. They are continually trying to log on to a non-existant
account "gay". Given that the name of the account they are trying to log onto, it is
very likely a denial of service attack. Since people can't send mail through POP3,
it's not a spam attack. Nor is it an attempt to crack the password, since the account
doesn't exist.
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-Scott
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