[Coco] OT: ISP SOS

[kevdig at hypersurf.com]

I can't send outgoing mail. Mozilla 1.8 gives an SMTP connection refused
error (This was sent using one of those web mail things). My ISP suggested
I try:

telnet smtpauth.hypersurf.com 25

This gives:

telnet: connect to address 209.237.0.12: Network is unreachable

I can ping it. I am on dialup and both systems I tried are running Linux
2.4.31 (PowerMac 8600 and Toshiba laptop). Other than nat and masquerade
there are no iptable rules/chains installed that I know of.

More disturbing, when I added a record <file> option to pppd and did:

telnet smtpauth.hypersurf.com

and then disconnected I saw some strange content from pppdump <file>:

rcvd "\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\f8\91{Z\00\ff\d0
      \11\a9\b2\00\c0O\b6\e6\fc\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00
      \00\00\00\00\00\01\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\ff\ff\ff\ff\18\01\00\00
      \00\00\0a\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\0a\00\00\00SYSTEM"
rcvd "\00\00\00\00\00\00#\00\00\00\00\00\00\00#\00\00\00ALERT\00\00\00\00\00
      \00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00
      \00\00\00\c2\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\c2\00\00\00     STOP! IMMEDIATE ATTEN
      TI"
rcvd "ON REQUIRED\0a\0a   Windows has found "
time  0.1s
rcvd "CRITICAL SYSTEM ERRORS.\0a\0a Download Registry Clean"
rcvd "er from: www.key32.com\0a\0aFAILURE TO ACT NOW MAY LEAD TO DATA LOSS AN
      D CORRUPTION!\0a\0a\00\00\00\00\00\00\f7\a4~"

Any suggestions welcome. My ISP thinks my systems are screwed up?

kevin