I mean.It's a wild guess, but it sure sounds like your box has been hacked.
The spamming can have several causes, but why is your box trying to connect
to other servers via SSH?  Have you changed your passwords?  Although, at
this point, it's probably too late and changing them wouldn't do much.

 

Sound's like you've been owned.

 

 

Michael J. Colvin

NorCal Internet Services

 <http://www.norcalisp.com/> www.norcalisp.com

 

 <http://www.norcalisp.com/> 

 

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From: madmac [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] spam

 

Now at 5829 , still counting.

 

madmac

----- Original Message ----- 

From: test <mailto:[email protected]>  

To: [email protected] 

Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:05 PM

Subject: [qmailtoaster] spam

 

I received reports today that my qmail server was spaamming, and trying to
get into others ssh ports.

Many complaints and emails from [email protected] ( eg )

 

Loggin in to the box , mostly unresonsive, sen a whole bunch of entries that
looked dodgy

 

eg: ./brk ***

could not kill the process, so did a reboot.

stopped qmail, stopped named, stopped mysql etc.

 

created a " catch " directory

mkdir -p /var/clamav/unwanted

cd /var

chown -R clamav:clamav clamav/

Then decided to manually run a complete clamav system scan ( after getting
freshclam update ) 

cd /

/usr/bin/clamscan -r -i --move=/var/log/clamav/unwanted/ -l
/var/log/clamav/clamscan.log

 

Currently found 2270 infected files , mostly users email with :
Sanesecurity.Junk.27236.UNOFFICIAL FOUND ( the 27236 numbers vary )

And still scanning.

 

 

So my question would be , why, is the server not stopping this when it come
in to the email?

 

What should I check in the configs.

 

Thanks all

madmac

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