UUNet contact for security spambot?

Mon Jan 5 16:54:05 UTC 2004

please email me your question :)

I didn't write the bot, but I know the people that did.

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Jay Hennigan wrote:

>
> Some well-intentioned person at UUNet, in an effort to rid the Internet
> of worms, viruses, and evildoers, has written a script that sends email
> in response to network scans.  Repeatedly.
>
> Mail comes from "secmbox3 at uu.net" with a return path of "eagleeye at uu.net".
>
> We're getting complaints for an origin IP that neither originates on nor
> passes through our network.  I'm not sure why UUNet or their robot assumes
> that we can help with the problem.
>
> Replies to the scripted mail appear to go to Dave Null.  If a human at
> UU.Net could contact me off-list about this, it would be appreciated.
>
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