Re: The ..... worm

From: Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The ..... worm
Date: 2003-08-25 11:19:44
Message-ID: 87y8xif0hb.fsf@deneb.enyo.de
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Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> writes:

> Thing is, in my case it wasn't due to that many people, most were
> mainly from one guy at rr.com
>
> Common header:
>
> Received: from LANCE (cs6711150-130.satx.rr.com [67.11.150.130])
^^^^^

You should filter on this string (which MUST contain a dot according
to RFC 2821). You can do this by rejecting HELO/EHLO commands which
lack a ".". Be sure to activate this filter only for mail received
from the Internet; your local Windows clients might generate it, too.

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