Greetings; I rx'd several copies of what I think was a viri yesterday, purportedly coming from verizon.net, my isp.
A very short text message mentioning my account, with a 60 kilobyte .zip file attached. The thing that bothers me is that it was addressed to that gibberish string they use as the primry account identifier, and not to the alias you all see this message coming from. Which to me means the viri generator has access to data that is not supposed to be public. Their machinery has been compromised, again... IMO, somebody at VZ needs to have a suitably sized fire built under them, but to whom do I actually send the nastygram? The only results I've seen previously is to send abuse a notice that their dns is attacking me, which has occurred 3 times in 2+ years now, and which usually results in the dns going down for a while the next day as they re-image the machine, but never an acknowledgement reply. But I'd druther notify someone in a position of determining policy in hopes that the situation will get fixed a bit more permanently as this is getting old. I'd switch isp's, but they are the only game in this town, darnit. The attack from the dns server? Dropped on the floor at the first New not Syn packet. One line entry in the logs. Unlike me, iptables & the rest of my guard dogs never sleep. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
