On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Zinski, Steve wrote: > > A possibly better method is to block SMTP outbound from the ISP. > > That's what we do here at the University of Richmond. Our firewall is > configued to block all outbound SMTP connections (except those of our > legitimate SMTP servers). This dramatically reduced the flow of spam > from our campus. We can now use tools to track (and block) spammers > since we only have to watch one or two servers (SpamShield works > nicely!)
Do you also watch the logs of blocked outbound SMTP to detect and fix infected hosts? -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Look at the people at the top of both efforts. Linus Torvalds is a university graduate with a CS degree. Bill Gates is a university dropout who bragged about dumpster-diving and using other peoples' garbage code as the basis for his code. Maybe that has something to do with the difference in quality/security between Linux and Windows. -- anytwofiveelevenis on Y! SCOX -----------------------------------------------------------------------
