Hello, I posted my squid.conf before, and someone made the observation that I was allowing a lot of different things and that "someone evil" had figured this out. I have tried to tighten it up. And when I do a netstat -vat, I keep seeing food?.foodconcepts.net, which is not a legitimate hostname at all. Is this as bad as I fear it could be? Access through this squid box continues to be slow for uploads. Thanks, Dean ___________________________________________________ http_port 3128 http_port 80 https_port 3128 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY cache_mem 64 MB cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 400 16 256 cache_access_log /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log cache_log /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log pid_filename /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid debug_options 4,10 26,2 83,10 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl fulda dst 130.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 acl origNet src 192.9.70.0/255.255.255.0 acl abyzNetU src 130.16.64.0/255.255.192.0 acl abyzNetW src 130.16.128.0/255.255.192.0 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl scanner dst 192.9.70.243 acl autoweb dst 67.109.76.29 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl abyz_forbidden url_regex "/usr/local/squid/etc/abyzforbidden/abyz_blocked.txt" acl abyz_forbidden_always url_regex "/usr/local/squid/etc/abyzforbidden/abyz_deny.always" acl abyz_forbidden_lunch url_regex "/usr/local/squid/etc/abyzforbidden/abyz_deny.lunch" http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow fulda http_access allow origNet http_access allow abyzNetW http_access allow abyzNetU http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all cache_mgr help@xxxxxxxxxxx cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid visible_hostname srvproxy228 dns_testnames google.com internic.net nlanr.net ibm.com _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dean Durant -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.