Anyone have any experience with VPS systems using Cpanel WHM?
Recently I received a noticed from the company where I have my VPS (Host Ican) that there is a great deal of spam coming from my ip address. Also that same day I found out AOL had blacklisted my IP (I have an AOL address and no emails were going through from regular email or online forms to any AOL address) I filled out an AOL whitelist request and within a day emails were coming back fine but less than 14 hours later ....on the blacklist again so I am assuming that spam is still coming from my IP.
The steps I took so far (right after I received the notification and found out about being blacklisted on AOL) was to change my root password for acesss into the WHM and VZ Panel. I also found some formmail.php scripts on my site that I was worried may be open for easy use so i deleted them and replaced all of my online forms on all websites with a more secure java script form.
My question is..... is there anyway I can find out where the spam is coming from? My hosting company sent me something with the headers from one of the spam messages and it just showed my server info (server.storksnmore.net)
Please any help that can be provided would be appreciated!
Spam from my VPS
Who administers the VPS and are they qualified to do do? Your VPS was most likely compromised. You may need to re-provision the VPS, in the end. Deleting rogue files is a temporary fix to a bigger problem. If this continues, you will be asked to find other hosting as providers take spam coming from their IP address seriously.
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I guess you can say I administer the VPS as I am the one running it and I have it hosted through Hostican. Actually they just emailed me after I sent them a header of one of the emails provided to me by Spam Cop and they found the same IP address that was sending the emails (possibly from a script on my VPS) so they blocked that specific IP so we will see if it continues
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