Thank your for your reply. I appreciate the information.
H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Smart Business Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Heimir Eidskrem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] what a pain! > Heimir, > > Wednesday, January 22, 2003 you wrote: > HE> And I am conerend that Blackice will do the same. > > I never saw any issues with sending and BlackIce unless the user > wasn't authenticated or wasn't from a safe IP. Even so the automatic > blacklisting is temporary. > > We installed BlackIce because of the huge problem we've been having > with dictionary attacks. > > Unfortunately in our experience BlackIce does not act against these > attacks until the attack is mostly complete at which time time it does > temporarily blacklist the offending ip address. This apparently has > to do with how it detects the maximum errors along with how Imail > reports them. So it is still not unusual for us to have attacks that > attempt more than one hundred recipients. Now this is an improvement > because unprotected we've seen many instances where the attacks try > thousands of recipients. > > However we started having 0x0000007F Errors causing the server to > reboot. In our case the error was "0x00000008 Double Fault." I > suspected BlackIce and turned it off and the errors have ceased. > > > Terry > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
