Ha! Must be open sores ;-) Thomas W Shinder www.isaserver.org/shinder ISA Server and Beyond: http://tinyurl.com/1jq1 Configuring ISA Server: http://tinyurl.com/1llp -----Original Message----- From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:24 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Re: FW: ISA Server alert: The SMTP command exceeded its allowed length http://www.ISAserver.org Actually, I went to their web page and it's full of "if you don't like what we do, TFB". Another "it's not up to us to advise our users on the correct use of our product" mentality. Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison http://isatools.org Read the help, books and articles! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 06:40 Subject: [isalist] Re: FW: ISA Server alert: The SMTP command exceeded its allowed length http://www.ISAserver.org Hi Jim, Perhaps its some clever spam put together by the folks at Hexillion, or perhaps a probe from one of their products? Thanks! Tom Thomas W Shinder www.isaserver.org/shinder ISA Server and Beyond: http://tinyurl.com/1jq1 Configuring ISA Server: http://tinyurl.com/1llp -----Original Message----- From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:31 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Re: FW: ISA Server alert: The SMTP command exceeded its allowed length http://www.ISAserver.org Hi Tom, You're right; it's just the SMTP filter spewing what it received into the event log. That string is definitely outside the "20 char" lmitation for a NOOP. Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! http://www.ISAserver.org Hey folks, Here's another very interesting entry in my log. I don't think its ISA Server generating this "helpful" message: ====================================== -----Original Message----- From: SMTP_Intrusion [mailto:SMTP_Intrusion] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:38 PM To: insider Subject: ISA Server alert: The SMTP command exceeded its allowed length ISA Server name: EXETERT2 NOOP *** See <http://www.hexillion.com/MailAdmin/> for an explanation of this session ====================================== Thomas W Shinder www.isaserver.org/shinder ISA Server and Beyond: http://tinyurl.com/1jq1 Configuring ISA Server: http://tinyurl.com/1llp