IP: When spam relays become worm breeding grounds

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brian McWilliams <brian () pc-radio com>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:22:08 -0500
To: dave () farber net
Subject: When spam relays become worm breeding grounds

Dave,

You may recall an IP item from a year ago about John Gilmore's battle with
Verio over his open spam relay at Toad.com:

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200103/msg0004
2.html

In your commentary, you asked "Are you next?"

Apparently John won a reprieve and has been able to keep his T1 from Verio
after making some changes to his mail server last August.

But it now appears that at least one virus writer has discovered the
continued usefulness of  toad.com as a relay and has hard-wired its address
into the W32.Yaha worm's mass-mailing code:

Virus Borrows Internet Pioneer's Server To Spread
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175003.html

Brian



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