Re: [exim] Am I Hacked?

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Author: Graeme Fowler
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To: Rick Lutowski
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Am I Hacked?
On 04/01/2007 16:25, Rick Lutowski wrote:
> Interesting! telnet per se is not running
> on the server. This must be a telnet buried
> in exim. Is this correct? If so, how can
> it be turned off? Or is it crucial to exim
> operation so that turning it off is unwise?
> This seems like a big security hole.


Renaud was using the telnet client application on his machine to talk to
the Exim SMTP server on yours. There's no evidence of a telnet server
existing on your server, but you can betcha someone would already have
got you if there was :)

Graeme