GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum - View Single Post - Hacking question...hacking gurus step inside.

RayVega · 06-24-2008, 10:27 AM

Very funny guys...I am very well aware that 127.0.0.1 is the local machine. The problem is that someone or something is triggering it to attempt to send an email every few minutes and in some cases several times a second. This is not a regular user trying to use the form improperly causing an error message, this is either a crazy loop, DOS attack, or attempt to use the form to spam. The attempts are crashing the system.

The way the scripts were designed, the main script(script one) passes info to script two to send the form results to several people...therefore my thoughts on this could be that someone (or a bot they use) are trying to use script number two to send out email to targets so it is untraceable to them, they are using script number two to attempt a DOS attack on someone, or it's just a bug that loops causing the scripting engine to blow up.

problem is that I am not familiar enough with ASP (or the windows web server platform). If the script was in PERL or PHP on a linux box for example, the issue would be resolved already.

06-24-2008, 10:27 AM
RayVega Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New York ICQ#348007554 Posts: 4,212	Very funny guys...I am very well aware that 127.0.0.1 is the local machine. The problem is that someone or something is triggering it to attempt to send an email every few minutes and in some cases several times a second. This is not a regular user trying to use the form improperly causing an error message, this is either a crazy loop, DOS attack, or attempt to use the form to spam. The attempts are crashing the system. The way the scripts were designed, the main script(script one) passes info to script two to send the form results to several people...therefore my thoughts on this could be that someone (or a bot they use) are trying to use script number two to send out email to targets so it is untraceable to them, they are using script number two to attempt a DOS attack on someone, or it's just a bug that loops causing the scripting engine to blow up. problem is that I am not familiar enough with ASP (or the windows web server platform). If the script was in PERL or PHP on a linux box for example, the issue would be resolved already. __________________ Ray "The Don" Vega Managing Director Private Equity Fund [email protected]