On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:54, David F. Skoll wrote: > > It would seem that they would see high levels of traffic coming from bots > > that they could throttle/reject. > > I wouldn't be surprised if more sophisticated bots use zombie networks to > log on to Hotmail and send mail via their Web interface. I think it would > be pretty hard to notice an anomaly against all their regular traffic.
They may be learning to distribute the load across a large number of hosts to keep it low enough to stay undetected. I've noticed something similar with ssh dictionary attacks for a while. Any newly exposed address is hit fairly quickly but only gets a few attempts per hour. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
