[pchelpers] Re: Over 2000 bots?
- From: "Betty B." <bettyb99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:53:29 -0400
I am only curious why so many ip's are "infected?" with bots (or allow
BOTs), and I guess as you say they are not trackable.
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>From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>To: PC-Helpers <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [pchelpers] Over 2000 bots?
>Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:27:56 +1200
>
>As of today, the list of undesirable IPs stood at 2036 (more than one
>for every year of the millennium). They represent all sorts of
>miscreants, many of which are bots unknown to the owners of machines
>they operate on. Several networks have been catalogued until they either
>stopped attacking or simply ran out of nodes, which makes them highly
>exposed to public scrutiny.
>
>I tried to persuade the staff at www.whois.sc to contact the owners and
>inform them of the matter so as to clean their systems, but they
>declined. If anyone has suggestions about how to (or whether to) do
>that, please write in.
>
>The current list is at:
>http://www.modecideas.com/cgi-bin/makepage.cgi?page=faq97iplist.html&action=nomsg
>I can email it to you as an attachment (text file), if it is helpful to
>you.
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