Forum Discussion
Just me or is Hughes email down for everyone?
Been getting this since early this morning:
Hi BirdDog,
Thanks for letting us know, is it still happening now? Nothing's popping up in our reports about email, and we haven't heard elsewhere of similar reports. Amanda and I haven't been able to reproduce that error either.
Working again so whatever causing it was temporary. Thanks for the replies.
Liz wrote:Whew! Glad to hear it BirdDog! Thanks for the update. Have a good weekend!
You're welcome. Maybe something like Mark suggested and short lived. You guys have a great weekend also!
BirdDog wrote:You're welcome. Maybe something like Mark suggested and short lived. You guys have a great weekend also!
Hopefully short lived. This is really ugly.
Seems there's a botnet that simultaneously probes websites for open relays they can hack into. They are masquerading as normal users with old Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and even blank user-agents (as seen in the web logs).
The same IPs are also responsible for sending email and blog spam with embedded links and virus-ridden files to infect the computers of regular people. This makes individuals part of the botnet and it's replicating widely in Europe and Latin America at an incredible rate.
If it weren't so heinous I'd say it was fascinating to observe, but it's been a real pain to fend off. I'm supposed to be retired. lol
