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Hi,<br />
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Is it a windows or Linux box?
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It is a Linux Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS machine
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Does anyone have any ideas on what I can try?
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Does anyone have any ideas on what I can try?

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I am running a Plesk 9.0.1 Web Server on Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS and have about 100 small to medium web sites hosted on the server. The problem is that I believe one of the websites has a script that is allowing spam to be sent through the server. The reason I believe this is that I get 1000s of messages an our deferred in the mail queue that show to be sent from the www-data user.<br />
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My question is if someone can tell me how to find the script or scripts that is sending the SPAM?<br />
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Thanks in advance for your help.
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I am running a Plesk 9.0.1 Web Server on Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS and have about 100 small to medium web sites hosted on the server. The problem is that I believe one of the websites has a script that is allowing spam to be sent through the server. The reason I believe this is that I get 1000s of messages an our deferred in the mail queue that show to be sent from the www-data user.

My question is if someone can tell me how to find the script or scripts that is sending the SPAM?

Thanks in advance for your help.

How to find the script on Plesk server that is sending SPAM as www-data user

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