[TriLUG] OT: Finding/Notifying People with Worm-infested PC's

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 16:04, Jaimie Livingston wrote:

> I have a small web-server that I run at home for personal and development
> use, and I've been tagged by a few Worm-infested Windoze boxes, probably
> some home PCs that the users have running wide open on the Internet. I have
> the IP addresses, some from RR, and would like to find these people and let
> them know that they are doing the world a disservice by leaving an infected
> Windows box up and running, and maybe give them some pointers on how to
> prevent such a thing from happening. 
> 

All you can really do is forward the e-mail (with full headers) to the
appropriate abuse/postmaster addresses, which would be for example
abuse at nc.rr.com for RoadRunner customers.  Not sure it will do that much
good but it's worth a try.  I don't really worry about it myself as
SpamAssassin seems to catch most of the worm e-mail that I get.

--Jeremy

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