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Maybe go after the Zombies

If your computer is Zombied, it can be tracked down, and your ISP absolutely blocks your computer until it is "fixed". For Zombied machine's elsewhere in the world, could not the worlds backbone apply the same filtering. Become a Zombie, get your traffic blocked. It takes a lot of effort to begin with, but I have personally tracked 30-40 zombied machines, contacted the ISPs and in about 1/2 the cases (1/2 the time they could give a crap, it costs money to do something), they take the machine offline.

If you eliminate the tools of the trade, the problem goes away.

TripleII

Posted by: TripleII   Posted on: 03/09/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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