At 08:19 PM 6/10/2004, Bit Fuzzy wrote:
At this point we are looking at 2 options.
1) Block offending IP's as they occur. -- Effective, but could be
aggravating to potential customers
For about a month, we've been adding virus-generating IPs to a local
blacklist with a 4-day expiration.
It's a c
I'd say so. You aren't talking about doing this after the fact, but as the
message is received and detected as viral - right? They'd have to have hung
up immediately and even then, it's unlikely the modem handshake would be
complete yet on the next call ;-)
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Nigel Horne wrote
Damian Menscher wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Tris Forster wrote:
With a ridiculous number of Somefools arriving at our server daily I was
trying to think of a proactive way do deal with them.
One possible solution I came up with was sending winpopups to the
offending IP informing them that they ar
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Tris Forster wrote:
> With a ridiculous number of Somefools arriving at our server daily I was
> trying to think of a proactive way do deal with them.
>
> One possible solution I came up with was sending winpopups to the
> offending IP informing them that they are infected (the
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Nigel Horne wrote:
> And just hope that the next person to dial in to the ISP who gets that
> IP address from DHCP is the same person...
If it's done immediately, then the chance of alerting the wrong machine is
pretty small, isn't it?
Jeffrey Moskot
System Administrator
[EMA
> > I think the only way I could think is reporting the IP to some DNSBLs.
> > That way you can stop receiving their mails and you leave the cleansing
> > problem to their ISP.
>
> And just hope that the next person to dial in to the ISP who gets
> that IP address
> from DHCP is the same person...
> I think the only way I could think is reporting the IP to some DNSBLs.
> That way you can stop receiving their mails and you leave the cleansing
> problem to their ISP.
And just hope that the next person to dial in to the ISP who gets that IP address
from DHCP is the same person...
-Nigle
--
ing
experiment...
m/
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> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004
On Wednesday, June 09, 2004 6:50 PM [EDT], jef moskot
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>
> Popping up a message on the machine with the proper IP number of the
> source of the infection sounds useful at best and harmless at
> worst...but is it really harmless? Could these popups interrupt
> running pro
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mitch (WebCob) wrote:
> We are sending this notification as a public service. Please contact
> your computer support person or visit one of the many PC Antivirus
> providers. Many have free solutions to your problem.
That does sound reasonable to me. I wonder if there isn't a
to your problem.
my 2 cents.
m/
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> Benzaquen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 12:10 PM
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> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 20:10, Samuel Benzaquen wrote:
>
>> I think the only way I could think is reporting the IP to some
>> DNSBLs. That way you can stop receiving their mails and you leave
>> the cleansing problem to their ISP.
>
> Or simply block the IP with sendmails a
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 20:10, Samuel Benzaquen wrote:
> I think the only way I could think is reporting the IP to some DNSBLs.
> That way you can stop receiving their mails and you leave the cleansing
> problem to their ISP.
Or simply block the IP with sendmails acces database (or the equivalent
f
> Tris Forster
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:02 PM
>
> While the aim of doing this may be completely honourable, sending
> winpopups to a non-firewalled machine stinks of spamming and thus I am
> in two minds about putting it into practice
You are right. That could be even worst that the
Hi all
With a ridiculous number of Somefools arriving at our server daily I was
trying to think of a proactive way do deal with them.
One possible solution I came up with was sending winpopups to the
offending IP informing them that they are infected (there's a pretty
good chance they'll get thro
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