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[Adam Todd]

At 12:40 PM 24/06/2007, Robert Hart wrote:
>Rick Welykochy wrote:
> > The 80% of the presentation that I did listen to failed to mention
> > specifically which PC configuration was the source of all the zombies
> > that is causing this financial fraud epidemic, i.e. PCs running
> > Microsoft Windows. I have never heard of a Linux or Mac or BSD or
> > other Unix zombie.
>True - but unfortunately Linux does contribute through misconfigured
>mail servers that act as open relays. This problem is not as big as it
>once was as most distros (certainly all the major ones likely to be used
>by newbies) install an MTA default config that won't act as an open
>relay (eg listening only on 127.0.0.1).

Yeah most now are configured to net even relay your local mail!