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The botnet attack on my site went on for weeks although I never had PhotoCart in the first place. Turns out that they were using Google and other search engines (nothing new) to farm site information to automatically locate potential exploits and launch the attack and one of my sites just happened to be in the Google search results because of a specific keyword. Sent a bunch of AUP violation reports to hosts with compromised dedicated servers which SLOWLY took a huge chunk out of the botnet banging on my server. What I found strange is some companies respond very quickly to AUP reports of this nature and it takes others days and sometimes weeks to respond to the problem. When I was sure I had decimated the botnet as much as possible, I informed a contact at Google about my problem and they applied a filter for the specific query, which they appear to do for other exploits as well, and the attack went away the next day. FWIW, Google and MSN are very proactive in stopping hackers from locating exploits via their search engines but Yahoo doesn't seem to care and is wide open for exploit searches. -- Bill Atchison http://www.crawlwall.com _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
