Jon Tydda
Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk
Tue May 31 06:53:12 CDT 2005
One of my friends had that - despite being a fairly knowledgeable computer literate bloke, he was running his pc on broadband with no firewall, no anti-virus and without running windows update. One day he got a letter from his ISP saying that his account was being disconnected until he cleaned his pc up, which is when I got the job of fixing it. That took some doing... Thank god for the online sites that don't need installers which can be blocked... Jon -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Carbonnell [mailto:carbonnb at gmail.com] Sent: 31 May 2005 12:48 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Viruses coming for several days from 195.167.69.130.... On 5/30/05, MartyConnelly <martyconnelly at shaw.ca> wrote: > Sounds like someone has borrowed your email address. if you are getting > bounced viruses or spam reports. > I had this happen about 6 months ago and got 300 or so pieces of mail a day > Since my address was a large cross Canada ISP with a million users, > nobody was going to blacklist it. > The blitz lasted about 2 1/2 weeks. I just ignored it. True, very few people are going to blacklist an entire ISP, but Shamil is/was receiving virii from a specific IP address. I have had this happen before. With the received headers, I could trace it back to a specific IP (and e-mail address) and armed with that info, I contacted the offender and when that fell on deaf ears, I contacted the offenders ISP. They, the offenders ISP, blocked them for a while (it appeared that it was in the order of several weeks) until the offender got their PC cleaned up. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available on request from : webmaster at alcontrol.co.uk ALcontrol Laboratories is a trading division of ALcontrol UK Limited. Registered Office: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, S60 1BZ. Registered in England and Wales No 4057291