Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread maill...@actmail.com
I think you are trying to put a band aid on a bigger problem. Are you sure that it is a number of hacked accounts and not a hacked machine? Are you sure your mail server has not been turned into a spambot? If they know the passwords they learned them one of three ways, with a sniffer, which

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread Steve Guluk
Hello, I have a lite gateway client that uses a database of IPs locations to screen out any countries before they get to iMail. Really cut down on the CPU load and still works well with Message Sniffer. http://sssolutions.net/ew/ The process might be used to screen any activity from Nigeria

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread Sanford Whiteman
I can't readily think of a more appropriate place to perform these checks, except maybe by modifying the Imail Web interface itself to use a geolocation database, but I'm not sure if that's even possible. You're talking about a task typically done by an ISAPI filter on the box

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Hayer
David E. Smith wrote: Anyone know of a way to apply DNS blacklists to a Web site in IIS I do not know of a way to do it dynamically, but you could blacklist the ip space of ng.blackholes.us? Another kludge is if you have samples of the spam they send and can pattern it then you can delete it

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread David E. Smith
Nick Hayer wrote: I suppose I could start filtering all my network's outgoing mail - my Imail server, and a few other ones, all smarthost/gateway their email through one central server here, basically for ease of logging. I could make that server start spam-scanning too, if I had to. I'd

RE: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread John Doyle
David I'm guessing you are behind a firewall, I hope so. Why not go in and block the address range at the firewall and leave it at that. I've had some pretty nasty people do the same thing you're seeing and ended up at this. I had some luck with declude and message sniffer, but these sort of folks

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread David E. Smith
Nick Hayer wrote: I do not know of a way to do it dynamically, but you could blacklist the ip space of ng.blackholes.us? Another kludge is if you have samples of the spam they send and can pattern it then you can delete it before it is sent. That's an awful lot of address space, probably a

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread David E. Smith
Steve Guluk wrote: Hello, I have a lite gateway client that uses a database of IPs locations to screen out any countries before they get to iMail. Really cut down on the CPU load and still works well with Message Sniffer. I don't see how this would work - the mails are coming from

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread David E. Smith
John Doyle wrote: Why not go in and block the address range at the firewall and leave it at that. I've had some pretty nasty people do the same thing you're seeing and ended up at this. I had some luck with declude and message sniffer, but these sort of folks are pretty agile and hard to stop.

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Hayer
Hi David, David E. Smith wrote: I suppose I could start filtering all my network's outgoing mail - my Imail server, and a few other ones, all smarthost/gateway their email through one central server here, basically for ease of logging. I could make that server start spam-scanning too, if I

Re: [IMail Forum] (OT?) Using DNS blacklists with IIS

2009-01-05 Thread David E. Smith
maill...@actmail.com wrote: Are you sure that it is a number of hacked accounts and not a hacked machine? Yup. So far, every one of these end-users has brought their desktop by the office, and we've found keyloggers and spyware on every one of 'em. I've also conducted the usual checks on