Try blocking the IPs at your border router.  Else, purchase a Blocker that
prevents Dictionary attacks.



Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: "for imail listserv " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:14 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] bruteforce attack


> We are under a bruteforce dictionary attack.  Has been going on
> for the last 24 hours.
>
> They are pretty good since they change ip address for every
> connection and only try 25 email addresses.
>
> We are not using SMTP Authentication yet but it is the plans for
> the next 2 weeks or so.
>
> Any idea on how to stop this.
>
> H.
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> Sent via the WebMail system at i360.net
>
>
>
>
>
> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> to be removed from this list.
>
> An Archive of this list is available at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
>
> Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked
> questions:  http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
>


Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html 
to be removed from this list.

An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/

Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked
questions:  http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/

Reply via email to