[OT] Re: Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-15 Thread Serge Orlov
imcs ee wrote: > On 13 Jun 2006 15:09:57 -0700, Serge Orlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex Reinhart wrote: > > My spam folder at gmail is not growing anymore for many months (it is > > about 600-700 spams a month). Have spammers given up spamming gmail.com > > only or is it global trend? > Gma

Re: [OT] Re: Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-14 Thread imcs ee
On 13 Jun 2006 15:09:57 -0700, Serge Orlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Reinhart wrote: > My spam folder at gmail is not growing anymore for many months (it is > about 600-700 spams a month). Have spammers given up spamming gmail.com > only or is it global trend? Gmail said "messages that have

Re: [*SPAM*] Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alex Reinhart wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: >> Alex Reinhart wrote: >>> Yeah, I just realized that. What would I do to act as an open proxy as >>> well? >> emulate the Apache proxy capability, especially the reverse proxy. >> >> more seriously, what you need to do is from common proxy and web s

Re: [*SPAM*] Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Reinhart
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Alex Reinhart wrote: >> Yeah, I just realized that. What would I do to act as an open proxy as >> well? > > emulate the Apache proxy capability, especially the reverse proxy. > > more seriously, what you need to do is from common proxy and web server > ports, accept pro

Re: [OT] Re: Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Reinhart
Serge Orlov wrote: > Alex Reinhart wrote: >> Serge Orlov wrote: >>> IMHO it's pretty useless, spammers are starting to use botnets, and the >>> more you make inconvenient to them use open proxies, the more of them >>> will move to closed botnets. >> As long as I inconvenience them, or at least catc

[OT] Re: Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Serge Orlov
Alex Reinhart wrote: > Serge Orlov wrote: > > IMHO it's pretty useless, spammers are starting to use botnets, and the > > more you make inconvenient to them use open proxies, the more of them > > will move to closed botnets. > As long as I inconvenience them, or at least catch one or two, I'll be >

Re: [*SPAM*] Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alex Reinhart wrote: > Yeah, I just realized that. What would I do to act as an open proxy as well? emulate the Apache proxy capability, especially the reverse proxy. more seriously, what you need to do is from common proxy and web server ports, accept proxy requests with a destination port numb

Re: [OT] Re: Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Reinhart
Serge Orlov wrote: > IMHO it's pretty useless, spammers are starting to use botnets, and the > more you make inconvenient to them use open proxies, the more of them > will move to closed botnets. As long as I inconvenience them, or at least catch one or two, I'll be satisfied. > My spam folder at

[OT] Re: Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Serge Orlov
Alex Reinhart wrote: > Being deluged by spam like nearly all of us (though fortunately I have a > very good spam filter), I also hate spam as much as almost everybody. I > know basic Python (enough to make a simple IRC bot) and I figured a good > project to help learn Python would be to make a simp

Re: [*SPAM*] Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Reinhart
Tim Williams wrote: > On 13/06/06, Alex Reinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Is running Python's built-in smtpd, pretending to accept and forward all >> messages, enough to get me noticed by a spammer, or do I have to do >> something else to "advertise" my script as an open proxy? > > This wi

Re: [*SPAM*] Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-13 Thread Tim Williams
On 13/06/06, Alex Reinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is running Python's built-in smtpd, pretending to accept and forward all > messages, enough to get me noticed by a spammer, or do I have to do > something else to "advertise" my script as an open proxy? This will get you noticed by crawlers

Python open proxy honeypot

2006-06-12 Thread Alex Reinhart
Being deluged by spam like nearly all of us (though fortunately I have a very good spam filter), I also hate spam as much as almost everybody. I know basic Python (enough to make a simple IRC bot) and I figured a good project to help learn Python would be to make a simple "proxypot." I've done som