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New Tracking IP
I've been getting a series of virus email that are annoying me. They can't hurt me (Linux), so it did not matter.

Until I also started getting bounced messages by the same source, saying that the virus I was sending someone could not be sent.

ARRG!

They are coming from:
Received: from 12-248-216-218.client.attbi.com (HELO YEMI) (12.248.216.218)

The return names it used so far are:

rodneyhampton1234@hotmail.com
ruehlmatthew@hotmail.com
paidopinions@aol.com
R13550@WACCVM.corp.mot.com
chicagorecruiting@scoreprep.com

Anybody recognize any of these names or the address?

Is it possible to track down the actual infected user?
Do I sent a nastygram to the netblock owner?
New nastygram to the netblock owner
asking them to suspend service to the machine in question.

It's British Telecom, IIRC; they're not very good at dealing with that sort of thing IME.
--\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton                            jake at consultron.ca *\n* [link|http://consultron.ca|http://consultron.ca]                   [link|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] *\n* Kingston Ontario Canada               [link|news://news.consultron.ca|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
New attbi is Comcast.


Peter
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New Re: Tracking IP
I've gotten lots of these as well, and I'm certain I've sent nothing and have no worms - this is some kind of bizarro side-effect of the shitty security measures implemented on mail servers.
-drl
New Not so
Most if not all of the new worm/trojans have their own mini-smtp server built in. They don't need a mail server to send you mail.
--\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton                            jake at consultron.ca *\n* [link|http://consultron.ca|http://consultron.ca]                   [link|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] *\n* Kingston Ontario Canada               [link|news://news.consultron.ca|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
New Ah OK
That makes more sense actually.

My faith in the impenetrability of our digital defenses is hereby restored.
-drl
New Heh
The thing is, how does one deal with the issue at hand?

When all is said and done, the entire problem would just go away if people stopped using Windows. I haven't used Windows for years, and have zero problems with this, except for 'net storms caused by stoopid amounts of traffic between windows boxen.
--\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton                            jake at consultron.ca *\n* [link|http://consultron.ca|http://consultron.ca]                   [link|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] *\n* Kingston Ontario Canada               [link|news://news.consultron.ca|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
New My solution is...

...to bounce all virus alert messages to all virus vendor's published email addresses, until they fix the fucking problem caused by auto-notification to spoofed addresses.

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I figure if a small number of folks on the Net do this, they'll start seeing the light right quick, and deactivate the notification "feature" entirely. Someone's got a virus? Fuck 'em. Unfortunately, you've got to be an adult (at least in behavior and responsibility) to drive on the Infobahn today.

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     Tracking IP - (broomberg) - (7)
         nastygram to the netblock owner - (jake123) - (1)
             attbi is Comcast. -NT - (pwhysall)
         Re: Tracking IP - (deSitter) - (3)
             Not so - (jake123) - (2)
                 Ah OK - (deSitter) - (1)
                     Heh - (jake123)
         My solution is... - (kmself)

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