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Re: FormMail.pl trauma memories

by hossman (Prior)
on Sep 08, 2003 at 07:13 UTC ( [id://289701]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to FormMail.pl trauma memories

Well, I'm not sure how much usefull information you're going to get out of the files you save ... I generally presume most of these folks are using throw away IPs from dialup ISPs. The sleep(5) looks like the best part of this whole thing to me since a spammer is less likely to use a site that seems to take 5 seconds to "send" a msg.

But why stop at 5 seconds? and why only waste their time, when you can waste their RAM? (and if they are acctually loging your CGI output for any reason: their disk as well)

... while (1) { sleep rand(5); my $r = rand(100); for (my $i = 0; $i < $r; $i++) { print "die you filthy low life scum bag, die!!!"; } }

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Re: FormMail.pl trauma memories
by mandog (Curate) on Sep 08, 2003 at 11:32 UTC

    I'm reluctant to fire back too hard for fear of collateral damage. The original attack came from a technical school in Eastern Europe. The attacks stopped after I contacted abuse@... It wouldn't make my day if somebody nuked servers at my day job because one fo the kiddies had been cracked.

    I just did a whois <REMOTE_ADDR> for the 4 attacks in the past 9 days. I didn't get many clear targets. One IP# is pretty clearly a web hotel..

    I haven't been as good as I should be about following up w/ abuse complaints...



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