On Wednesday, December 15, 2004, 16:37:44, A. Clausen wrote:
> Due to a number of worms discovered on a number of our subscribers'
> computers we've been blocking outgoing port 25 connections for
> subscriber IPs.

Thank you.

> However, I'm seeing some activity on our firewall logs indicating some
> subscribes are attempting to send to what look like Hotmail SMTP
> servers. Is this how Hotmail on Outlook Express works? I always
> thought it was through http,

That's my understanding as well.

> but perhaps I am just looking at another worm.

Do  the  logs  show them attempting connections to other SMTP servers as
well?

For  the short term you could ignore it. If you don't get a support call
from  them within a few days its probably a worm and you could send them
an e-mail strongly suggesting they deworm their system.

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