[70470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Antivirus firms discover Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun May 16 13:22:37 2004
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 20:21:49 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405161637500.2032-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
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Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
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>I mean fwd to some central location to be shared with various operators rather
>than spamcop style org lookup ..
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My statement holds even in this case. What good would this do beyond
honeypots which can be used to collect this information in less than a week?
If somebody would be interested and have the means in hunting down and
closing the zombie/spam commanders it could be done today. Getting their
whereabouts is not the issue.
Pete
