> Spamhaus already do this. It's called the Exploits Block List (XBL): > > http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/ > > To quote: > > The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP > addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including > open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with > built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits. > > /end quote
It would likely be a good idea to block IP's in this list from using authenticated SMTP to relay not? Is there a way in apache .htaccess to block access based on xbl.spamhaus.org? I want to block exploited IP's from webmail etc as well.
