Spammers

This is common to computers that are taken out of the box and running only on BIO's Chips and I/O's Chips; most likely you are running on 'A' board and everyone in gawds creation is useing the rest of them includeing the or theother Drives. The solution is available in a number of the answers I've given here, check them.

RIVER FREIGHT

RiverFreight:
What the F@#$% does your answer have to do with the question??? I've seen this several times before but never said anything until now. Do you have several threads open and forget which ones you're replying to? Please stop it because it's very annoying.

Ralph

Mr. rdschaffer

"THE" Single most common problem I am Finding over and over both here and with those that I do services for is that the hardware they bought is only running on the BIO's AND I/O's Chips and gawd only knows how old they are and what version of DOS they are running - LOOK IT UP.

RIVER FREIGHT

Someone on your network (or perhaps one of your own machines) probably has a little executable on it that generates spam. These are a real pain! Sometimes they come as virus payload, sometimes they come in as scripts in emails, and other times they are dropped there by hackers.

Get your anti-virus software upto date and check every machine. The virus checkers can pick most of these up (I won't say all because this is an area still developing) and help you clean them up.

Make sure you have some good firewall protection for your network and your email server. That will help prevent it in future.

Alternatively, your server is being used as a relay by another (unauthorised) person -that is why they hide their identity. Make sure you close down all the relay services you don't need and protect the ones you do by restricting who (i.e. your machines' IP addresses) can use them. (The earlier answer to close open SMTP relays meant this.)

Auto-reply or users' replies requesting to be removed from a spammers list will include an originator id (so that the spammer knows who should be removed from the list.)