Archive for November 1st, 2006

Spammers screwing around with postmaster alias

As required by section 4.5.1 of RFC2821, the RFC detailing the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), the postmaster alias (e.g. postmaster@domain.tld) is required on any system running an SMTP service. So far so good.

Having not gotten spam via my own SMTP, thanks to Greylisting I thought I was safe. But now spammers - scum as they are - resort to the very last method to spam valid addresses. Continue reading ‘Spammers screwing around with postmaster alias’

Got ‘em back, LS :-P …

Backup is always good to have …

Yeah, found the stuff. Here is a screenshot of the article “Bragging Rights” referenced in this article from exactly 3 months back …

Last but not least the two articles - referenced here - about rootkits have been found on my 500 GB backup disk. I could pretend that I found them after only some days, but actually it took only about 10 minutes for the XP search to come up with the results :mrgreen:. Here are the files as an archive. Uncompress the file and watch them with the application that registered to view .mht (web archive) files. Enjoy.

// Oliver