Edge 1 Networks/Williams Communications Group

Tue Aug 5 02:26:02 UTC 2003

After several run-ins with Edge 1 Networks [69.44.28.0/22] having their 
machines "hijack" victim machines on our networks infected with Jeem, 
and then making their spam runs, I've had it.  I have reported both to 
Edge 1 and their parent Williams Communications Group [AS7911] with no 
result and I will be blocking Edge 1 [in theory, AS29986, but no doubt 
private spewage from WCG.NET).

They hijacked a Jeem proxy on July 17th, it was shut down.  The help 
desk thought they had cleaned it up, but within 30 mins of placing it 
back online again, Edge 1 grabbed it again.  I brought it into the lab 
with a sniffer, rebooted (new IP), and Edge 1 picked it up within 10 
minutes and began spam/proxying.

This past Sunday, a similarly Jeem'ed machine was hijacked by the same 
Edge 1 block (numerous machines in the Edge 1 block, mind you) and due 
to me being out of the office it wasn't noticed and shutdown until 
Tuesday, after a little over a half million proxied spams.

Are these people just totally off-the-wall?  Google searches seem to concur.

I am awaiting confirmation that ALL the proxies originated from Edge 1 
(takes a while to churn through those gigs of pix logs).

Jeff Kell
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga