Re: Spam sent from my account?

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From: Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] (kweilbacMVP_at_gte.net)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:20:37 -0500

Unless you've opened up some port you shouldn't have, and you have your
server up to daye with security patches, and you do run a server based
anti-virus solution -- then I doubt that your server was compromised, nor
that those things were generated internally. As SG said, it was probably
someone external from your site that has a virus. 

-- 
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
"mathab" <mathab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:D35F1B25-BAE9-4404-A069-BB0D445B7602@microsoft.com...
> This morning I opened my email to find 50+ returned non deliverable 
> emails.
> They were all sent from my account with the subject  "Are you listed with
> Google?".  The SBS server is Standard, two nics, behind a router with only
> necesary ports forwarded., using SMTP for mail.  How can i tell if my
> server's security is still compromised? This only happened once, and only
> from the one account.  The account in question had administrator rights; I
> have since changed it to moble user as well as changed the password.  I 
> also
> renamed the admin account and enforced strong passwords while I was there.
> Could this be as simple as a hacked password?  How else could this happen?
> What else can I do to make sure I am safe?  Thanks for any ideas, mathab

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