Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:29:51 +0100 
 NCC local-ir list Moderator <lir-mod at ripe.net> wrote:

You need to beef up your security install the sendmail stuff
from www.sendmail.org, I'd recommend installing a mail
relay agent that was "with it" like qmail. www.qmail.org.

Basically I shouldn't be able to get this:
Trying 195.62.194.5...
Connected to genesis.netcentral.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.


BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 (genesis.netcentral.co.uk) (ttyp1)

login:
> 
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> Date:     Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:59:42 -0000
> From:     "Mark Simcoe" <msimcoe at netcentral.co.uk>
> To:       <local-ir-list at ripe.net>
> Subject:  Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have just been used as a smtp relay for one of the US spam companies and
> it crashed one of our mail servers, the service remained unaffected as our
> backup systems took over but we use sendmail and I cannot seem to find out
> how to stop us from being used in this fashion.
> 
> I know this is not the correct list for this sort of thing but I need some
> expert advice as our software suppliers don't know how to stop it.
> 
> As a general warning to everyone out there we need to protect our systems
> from these people who are starting to use us all to deliver their mail for
> them without paying us a penny.
> 
> Please someone help,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
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