Spammer are using port 80 on my firewall to send spam

[Ishwar Rattan]

If you open the port the spammer will use it. Spam is not
related to packet filtering, firewall can only do so much.

-ishwar

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Jacques Beaudoin wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Im getting hit by spammer on port 80 on my firewall thats is also running
> squid.
>
> If i open port 80 to my mail server via prerouting,  spammer wiill use
> my firewall to send spam.
>
> Port 80 is now block and i can see on my internet interface all
> ip address trying to use my firewall as a spam proxy.
>
> My squid rules looks ok.
>
> Can anybody help
>
> Thanks
>
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