Hallo liebe Archivbots, so neu ist es wohl nicht, aber zumindest mal for the rest of us nett aufgeschrieben:
--snip-- Cloaking Device Made for Spammers By Brian McWilliams Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60747,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 09, 2003 PT [..] The latest innovations developed by such mercenary hackers on behalf of the junk e-mail profession are techniques that enable spammers -- or scam artists for that matter -- to create websites that are essentially untraceable. One group in Poland is currently advertising "invisible bulletproof hosting" in online forums for spammers. For $1,500 per month, the group says it can protect a site from network sleuthing tools used by spam opponents, such as traceroute and whois. [..] According to Tubul, his group controls 450,000 "Trojaned" systems, most of them home computers running Windows with high-speed connections. The hacked systems contain special software developed by the Polish group that routes traffic between Internet users and customers' websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as traceroute, effectively laundering the true location of the website. To utilize the service, customers simply configure their sites to use any of several domain-name system servers controlled by the Polish group, Tubul said. [..] --snip---------------------------------------------------------------------- MfG Olaf -- While Nokia encourages N-gage owners to use a headset, if you ignore that device and use the phone in a more normal fashion, you have to hold it against your cheek lengthwise. Essentially, it looks like you've had a taco surgically grafted to your head. -- Chris Morris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
