Idiot of the week...
As you will know, I have been doing 'battle' with people trying to post comments or trackbacks that have nothing to do with the post but are advertisements for various PPC (Pills, Porn, Casino) and stock pumping scams.
These people operate from zombie systems -- PCs that are always on and connected to the internet but owned by people who don't see the need to run the various MSFT security updates. These systems are taken discovered, exploited and used as email and processing servers by the spammers.
Generally, I will see a flurry from one system and then it will either stop suddenly (someone was curious as to why it was running so slowly and called a 'computer guy') or taper off (the spammer is loosing interest).
The idiot of the week is this poor godless soul at IP address:
209.160.72.10.
They are using HopOne Internet Corporation at 1010 Wisconsin Avenue in Washington DC.
So far, in the last 22 hours, I have received 772 attempts at spam.
None of them have gotten through but what makes the bozo at 209.160.72.10 so unreal is that their system was responsible for 718 of the 772 attempted hits. Talk about energizer bunny. Talk about loooooooser...
Incoming: 772
Successful:
ZERO!
Unique IP addresses: 39!
Posted by DaveH at November 10, 2006 10:18 PM