[nzlug] (OT) Sorbs etc, was Exim: Limiting outgoing connections on Debian

[Michael J. Knox]

Tony Wills wrote:
> At 09:54 6/10/2006, Simon Lyall wrote:
>>On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Tony Wills wrote:
>> > very little SPAM is generated from within NZ
>>...1. There are plenty (10% of all Internet connected home computers is a
>>good rule of thumb) of Zombie infected home computers in NZ that are
>>being used to send Spam.
>
> Where can I see a list (sounds like good business for me :-).  But
> seriously where are the NZ stats?  Ahh, now I see a way we can bring this
> back on topic, what operating system are these Zombies machines running,
> and is there an alternative ?  ;-)
>

Not necessarily Windows (judging from the wink, I assumed that was what
was being implied). I have recently cleaned up some sendmail
implementations that are hosted in a NZ datacentre and were an open relay
(not my doing, die sendmail die!) and were actively being used as an relay
for spammers.

In my some what un-informed opinion, I would guess it would be more likely
that spam originating from NZ would be due to poorly secured and
configured MTA's.

Michael