From: Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org>
Subject: Re: Current "Swen" worm attack
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:49:06 -0500
Date: 2003-09-22T22:49:06-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6acnSQacLkuX_KiXTWJiw@gbronline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ydBbb.1761$%G1.990@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net>
chris wrote:
> copies. Reports say spam will be helped by the verisign fiasco, though
> I'm not sure why. I wonder if it will help worms like this spread?
There are folks who reject mail connections
with bogus domain names. thanks to Verisign,
ALL strings that end in .com reverse DNS to
an IP address, a lot fewer spams will be rejected
by sites that use that filtering method.
By the way, Verisign is STILL doing that!
--
Wes Groleau
Heroes, Heritage, and History
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-22 3:05 Current "Swen" worm attack Alexander Kopilovitch
2003-09-22 10:27 ` Stephane Richard
2003-09-22 11:45 ` chris
2003-09-23 3:49 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2003-09-22 11:49 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-22 21:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-09-23 7:10 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-23 7:35 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-09-23 0:39 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
2003-09-23 4:11 ` David Marceau
2003-09-23 11:08 ` Jeff C,
2003-09-23 15:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-09-24 1:14 ` Jeff C,
2003-09-24 8:20 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-25 10:10 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-09-25 11:01 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-25 11:32 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-25 12:07 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-09-25 13:47 ` Stephen Leake
2003-09-23 18:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-09-23 20:56 ` Berend de Boer
[not found] ` <3F6FA78D.3070708@myob.com>
2003-10-03 13:41 ` sk
2003-10-03 14:17 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-23 3:44 ` Current "Swen" worm attack - a tip Wes Groleau
2003-09-23 7:33 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-23 17:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-09-23 18:00 ` Brian Catlin
2003-09-23 19:14 ` tmoran
2003-09-23 20:55 ` Berend de Boer
2003-09-24 10:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-09-24 21:50 ` Wes Groleau
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