On Thursday 25 August 2005 12:31, Chris typed:
> Noted this in my syslog this morning, is this another harmless error, or is
> something borked somewhere?
>
> Aug 24 21:30:09 cpollock spamd[7745]: bad protocol: header error:
> \200__( '$Î__________\206 __\2377____________________\200__( '$Ï__________
> \206¡__\2377____________________\200__( '$Ð__________\206¢__\2377__________
> __________\200__(
> '$Ñ__________\206£__\2377____________________\200__(`'$Î__
> ________\206 __\2377____________________\200__(`'$Ï__________\206¡__\2377_
> ___________________\200__(`'$Ð__________\206¢__\2377____________________\
> 200__(`'$Ñ__________\206£__\2377____________________\200__( '$Î__________\
> 206 __\2377____________________\200__( '$Ï__________\206¡__\2377__________
> __________\200__( '$Ð__________\206¢__\2377____________________\200__( '$Ñ_
> _________\206£__\2377____________________
> Aug 24 21:30:40 cpollock spamd[7799]: bad protocol: header error: GET /
> HTTP/1.0

I'd guess your spamd is listening on a port that realplayer or similar thought 
was a web server/audio server (and possibly an MS box based on one record).

Is your spamd exposed to the cruel internet, or protected by a firewall?

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