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Re: IBM to offer service to bounce unwanted e-mail back to the computersthat sent them

  • From: Vicky Rode
  • Date: Tue Mar 22 14:55:59 2005 
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Why even bother responding. Just imagine frontbridge (using them an
example, I have no affiliation with them) responding to each and every
spam they block..something like 7 terrabytes of data per week or so. I
guess this is one way to justify for more bandwidth :-)


regards,
/virendra

Colin Johnston wrote:
| The better idea would be fingerprint the spam to match the bot used to
match
| the exploit used to run the bot to then reverse exploit back to the
| exploited machine patching in the process.
| I managed to setup such a system a while ago with nimda traffic however I
| could not a find a software tool which exploited a nimda exploited machine
| which could then patch it and remove the virus
| (Ie a remote doctor without you knowing :)
|
| Colin Johnston
|
|
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