I found this rather interesting article on the BBC website! Is such a thing possible?
Is there any news on how to detect and get rid of it as well?
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A Spam Virus?
Scary! And it sure is possible. All it needs is to have it's own smtp server, but a good firewall will alert you though, that it's there, but no firewall and you won't even know!
Back when I had my server, and my mail server, it got hijacked to a point where I was getting a DoS. 300 porn emails were being sent all over - at the time I checked, so I estimate a total of thousands. It was on for quite a while, and was most likely sending about 10 emails per second!
By the way I moved this to a more appropriate forum.
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Back when I had my server, and my mail server, it got hijacked to a point where I was getting a DoS. 300 porn emails were being sent all over - at the time I checked, so I estimate a total of thousands. It was on for quite a while, and was most likely sending about 10 emails per second!
By the way I moved this to a more appropriate forum.
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