Well, it is worse than that.  Someone with a script that was looking
for an insecure mailer script sniffed my scripts and it is a form
collecting information and then sending it to me.

I've been doing a little bit of reading and the way to do it seems to
be to make sure that it can only send the form results to the
specified email/domain.  I'm not sure how to accomplish this.  I have
a perl script that gathers form results that runs on a bunch of my
sites that I wrote, and I have some php scripts that handle this sort
of thing too.

Help?

Marian

--- In [email protected], Brandon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A pretty straightforward approach to securing your script is to make a 
> simple login system. Modify the mailing script so it will not mail 
> anything unless you are logged in. You can also put the script in a 
> directory that is protected with standard http authentication, which 
> prompts the browser for a username and password.
> 
> Brandon
> 
> Pete wrote:
> 
> >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marian Briones
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >  
> >
> >>HI gang
> >>Some evil spammers exploited my server yesterday while I was out
> >>playing on my new Harley.  They were able to use a mailer script that
> >>I use for broadcasting emails to mailing lists and I can't figure
out how.
> >>
> >>What needs to happen to make a 'secure' script where these evil thugs
> >>can't do this?  
> >>
> >>Marian
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Surely it depends on your script?  How do you do things at the moment?
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> ---------------------------------
> * Brandon Smith
> * programmer / web designer
> * http://sproutworks.com




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