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Posted by Paul on May 9th, 2008


Greetings,

I am having one hell of a time getting Exchange secured. No matter what I do
(it seems), I can not keep spammers from connecting to Exchange. I have
tested for an open relay at several sites and I pass with flying colors, but
when I look under Default SMTP Virtual Server > Current Sessions, there are
always spammers connected. I also get this in the server report:
smtpsvc 402 5/8/2008 12:15 PM 13 *
Virtual Server 1: 77.241.36.5 maximum number of connections has been
reached. Connection being closed.

I did drop the maximum connections allowed down to 10 until i get this
resolved, so that might explain that error.

The odd part is that i can't find the mail that they are sending out by
going to Message Tracking Center. It looks like we (authorized users) are
the only ones sending mail.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

Paul Smith

Posted by Duncan McC on May 10th, 2008


In article <059D21BA-9F94-44D5-BE73-5ADCA8857293@microsoft.com>,
psmith@computersmarts.biz says...
OK, so this could then be caused by a hacked machine on the LAN. Easy
test, disconnect the workstations (the switch), and see how that goes.

--
Duncan


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