If you are using web forms like formmail it is extremely easy to hijack them unless you require some sort of human authentication. The most common sort of this is to write what they see in a distorted picture or you only allow the form to send the info to a specific e-mail address or you only allow the form to be filled out from a specific e-mail address. If you are running formmail.pl unprotected, I can write a script in about 10-15 minutes that will send anywhere from 1,000 to 100,000 e-mails to random people via a dictionary attack...I am sure there are spammers out there that can do a much better job than little ole me.
Regards, Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Funaro > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:39 AM > To: iMail List > Subject: [IMail Forum] OT? Web Form Spam > > Over the past 24 hours, three messages to two different web forms we have > online with some client websites have been used to send SPAM to us, > basically pointing us to websites. Both are foreign sites - one was > russian, the other spanish. Because web forms usually require a human to > fill out and submit, it seems odd to me that we'd see this twice in such a > short period of time. Is there a new automated bot out there or > something, > that's capable of spamming via these web forms? Or is this simply an "old" > problem that I have never had to address until now? Is there more > investigating I should be doing? > > Thanks everyone, > > Marc > > > 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/
