Les Mikesell wrote: > Someone cracked my gmail password and sent what seemed like an oddly > small amount of spam from it. gmail and hotmail must be very easy to crack, or is there some check apart from the password? > That doesn't work for web services open to the public. You need > firewalls that can work at wire speed filtering the inbound URLs for > known attack patterns, plus of course, updating the software as > quickly as possible to fix the vulnerabilities. Yes, I'm more worried about attacks through port 80. Can anyone point me to documentation on protecting a web-server? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin