On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:13:40 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:05:26 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> Is the Arachne list down? >> Looks like it might be back up for a bit. > I got nothing but email viruses all week long. Most had Arachne > list paticipants spoofed as the "sender". > Nasty business, eh? The volume of this crap is tremendous. Must > be the continuing problem with the list--it keeps getting swamped > with klez and variants. > I don't really know what's happening, of course. But it is something > weird. I have been getting the same kind of garbage as you. One of the email addresses spoofed as "sender" was "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Maybe somebody filed some unjustified complaints against "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and maybe some ISPs and some ORBS database managers took some irresponsible action and blacklisted "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I am receiving between four and six KLEZ viruses every day. All of them indicate a return path of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and they all bear IP numbers within the same general range. I asked my ISP to just blacklist the offending IP numbers, but they won't do it. They won't blacklist anything unless it is in ORBS. The reason why they won't blacklist an offending IP number is that it might be an automatically assigned IP number instead of a static IP number. The next person to log on to the ISP "first-trustees.com" might be a real person with legitimate purposes, and he might get assigned the same IP number as the virus propagator that was previously blacklisted. I think the best way to apply some effective restraints against the virus propagators would be to track them down and fine the owners of the offending computers. It might cost a lot of money to track down the culprits, but the expenditures can easily be made up by all the fines that would be collected. Also it would be a good idea to outlaw Micro$oft Outlook and Outlook Express as unsafe products. If they can so easily outlaw "bad" medicines and "bad" chemicals and "bad" tires and "bad" guns and "bad" baby seats, and a lot of other "bad" things, then it ought to be a simple matter to ban bad software. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
