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Over 200GB of Traffic a day? Hacked? Try this.

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Check ProxyRequests On in your apache configuration files. Turn that ProxyRequest Off

Apparently I had this setting to On and someone was using my server as a Forward Proxy!!! OUCH.

Any idea if this is on by default?

Thanks for the heads-up! I'd vote it up, but I'm not really sure this is the right place for this. Useful information, to be sure, but eehhhh....

According to proxy.conf:

        #turning ProxyRequests on and allowing proxying from all may allow
        #spammers to use your proxy to send email.