The Snowman
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Re: ISP Blocked my access because of spam
I am troubled because my internet provider blocked my access because they report that my external ip address sent 10,000 emails at 8am.
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Is the Op speciafically saying that 10,000 emails were sent at SPECIFICALLY 8 a.m. ?
ok, what am I missing here ? Microsoft by default sets the OS to have FOUR (4) OUTBOUND connections at any given time......this was done to control the spred of virues....( an takes a registry tweak to change)
So how is it possible for a normal, un-tweaked , operating system to mass email 10,000 spams specifically at 8 a.m. ?
Surely this would not have gone un-noticed by the OP ......the computer would have made a massive slow down until all spam emails were sent.........an 10, 000 emails don't just pop-out from a computer in a few seconds....
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nwrickert
sand groper
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| I assumed the 8am was an approximate time.
Where does this "FOUR (4) OUTBOUND connections at any given time" limit come from? I often have more than 4 ssh (putty) connections. My browser often has a bunch of connections, and at the same time as the putty connections are open. And this with XP home on my laptop. I don't recall running into a connection limit.
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| reply to The Snowman
I'm thinking it was a spoof using his SMTP, and email addie.
I use various other SMTP servers when I travel instead of webmail, for my convenience. Of course, I don't spam from them, I do a few emails. It can, and has been done.
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leibold
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said by The Snowman  :So how is it possible for a normal, un-tweaked , operating system to mass email 10,000 spams specifically at 8 a.m. ? Take a plain text spam email message (up to 2 KB) * 10,000 and you need to transmit somewhere in the area of up to 160,000,000 bits.
Given that the poster is talking about a 10Mbps Internet connection I'm assuming that it is residential service with 1Mbps of upstream bandwidth.
This means that it is taking at most 3 minutes to transmit those email messages and that is generously assuming each is send individually. It will take far less time if the spam program is smart enough to send the same message body to multiple recipients at once. If every message is addressed to 10 recipients the transmission that started exactly at 8:00 can be finished before 8:01 (not that I believe that the ISP meant that time to be taken that literal).
There is no need for concurrent socket connections either.
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