Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > > Only if they brute-force is fast succession - which is insanely dumb to > do. And this is were automation can be brilliant. There are lots of IP > addresses to scan. There is no need to make all your efforts against a > single IP at a time. If you revolve them, you become a lot less > noticeable attacker. >
Are there people out there really pinging mail servers once every - say - 6 hours with made up user names to see if they exist ? How many thousands will they have to try to get anything worthwhile out of it and how long - with such large gaps between pings to avoid blacklisting - would this take ? It's fruitless and I'd be surprised if anyone could be bothered - there are far easier ways to harvest email addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
