On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, you wrote:
> Just a telnet to port 25 will tell you if a mail server is running. I don't
> advocate running a scan or doing anything unnecessary. Notifying them that
> their computer is infected would be a nice thing to do.

But by the time you read your log file, that IP number might be allocated
to another user, or temporarily not allocated. Unless they have a fixed IP
which not many home users have (assuming it's a home user).
Then again, if they're infected with Code Red they must have had IIS running
at some stage, but there are plenty of home web servers using a dynamic dns
service. I can't imagine any professional web master still running
an un-patched IIS :-> so I assume it's a home user ...

Yuri

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