Re: Good-Bye rr.com
From: William Poaster (willpoast_at_jvyycbnfg.zr.hx)
Date: 11/18/05
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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:36:15 +0000
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:11:27 +0000, Aragorn wrote:
> On Friday 18 November 2005 16:32, Alan Connor stood up and spoke the
> following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/
>
>> Those posts from the deranged spammer through rr.com were the
>> straw that broke the camel's back.
>>
>> Add them to the fact that rr.com is a favorite of trolls and
>> doesn't even respond to complaints...
>>
>> I'm leaving any posts from them on the server from now on.
>>
>> The entire posts.
>>
>> And any responses to them.
>>
>> Haven't decided about telia.net/com yet.
>
> As far as I know, Telia is a Swedish ISP. We've already had previous
> experiences with zombies/crackers from that ISP, but I guess every ISP
> has such cretins among their customers.
>
> I've seen three distinctly different IP addresses being used in this
> attack - it was not just directed at this group, by the way - and they
> probably lead to zombie PC's.
>From what I've seen [before invoking a Leafnode filter(s)] some of the
posts look like a Hipcrime flood attack.
For example, this post:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/6de9a37eef304241?dmode=source&hl=en
is pure gibberish, typical of a Hipcrime 'bot.
If you're not familiar with Hipcrime, this may explain things;-
http://www.killfile.org/dungeon/why/hipcrime.html
More here:-
http://www.ganesha.org/ptb/hipcrime.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipcrime
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