[pchelpers] Re: Bad IP addresses

Thanks for the links. Comments below:

Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 2:27:22 PM, you wrote:
>
>JD> Since my guest book was set up, the system has been keeping a log of
>JD> attempts by off site scripts to misuse it. The list is growing into what
>JD> may be an interesting map of the 'bot nets' distributed all over the world.
>
>JD> These are infected PCs which attempt to carry out nefarious activities,
>JD> often without the knowledge of their owners. I was just wondering- could
>JD> this be the basis of an 'Is your machine infected with a bot?' resource?
>
>JD> I'm curious what your views are on this, since the list continues to grow.
>
>I hear that the large internet companies with large empty blocks of IP
>addresses monitor various kinds of botnets.
>
>Ok, found some links:
>http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:XlcQy_KI14gJ:www.cheswick.com/ches/ppt/ipv6-myrtle2005.ppt&hl=en&lr=lang_en
>http://www.wormblog.com/witty/ (look for "Outwitting the Witty Worm")
>This guy seems to be writing pages in huge fonts. Without reading all 57 
>pages, it looks like some sort of internet history. It's hard to tell how 
>relevant it is to the topic.
>  
>

>More links:
>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22network+telescope%22+-stars+-skyscan+-focus+-astronomy
>  
>

>Here the ideas of a Network Telescope is described, for looking at network 
>activity on a large scale to spot worm and DDOS attacks. Maybe my view with a 
>single log file is the microscopic view. In this case, I know for sure certain 
>scripts from specific IPs have attempted to exploit my system to pland ads on 
>the guest book (and failed). I can't be sure which is more useful.
>  
>

>Of course, if some ISPs would monitor their customers better, this
>would be less of a problem.
>
>  
>
Agreed. There are some sneaky customers around.

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