Virus issue

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Al, and all,

 

> A quick look at the headers on that " Reserved " post indicates that this

> email originated at sklarchitect.com. Apparently it came from there,

> maquerading as me. Go figure. If this continues to be a problem, I'll

> just re to this list with a different name or something.

 

sklarchitect.com is IP 209.15.25.209 and was operating when I checked at

4:53PM EDT. It is not on the black hole list for known SPAM sources, but

is very likely (but not certainly) being used as a mail relay because their

sysadmin has misconfigured their SMTP server. SPAMer's also spoof the

headers by substituting whomever they wish. Thus, email harvesters (bots

that read places like for anything that looks like an email address),

gather the names, and the SPAMer co-opts some site's SMTP server and

sends their SPAMs by the thousands.

 

I've grabbed the information for the host site. You, or anyone who has this

problem, should follow up with the site admin. If you re- with a

new address, they'll get that one too. The only way to eliminate these jerks

is to get all the poorly configured servers fixed, and contacting the ISP or

sysadmin is the best bet.

 

CommuniTech.Net, Inc. (NETBLK-COMMUNITECHNET)

1627 Main Street Suite 1100

Kansas City, MO 64108

US

 

Netname: COMMUNITECHNET

Netblock: 209.15.0.0 - 209.15.255.255

Maintainer: CMTK

 

Coordinator:

CommuniTech.Net, Inc. (IC117-ARIN) noc

(877) 722-8662

 

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

 

NS.HOSTING4U.NET 209.15.2.3

NS2.HOSTING4U.NET 209.15.2.4

NS4.HOSTING4U.NET 209.15.89.35

NS3.HOSTING4U.NET 209.15.3.1

 

ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE

 

Record last updated on 26-Sep-2001.

Database last updated on 7-Jul-2002 20:00:15 EDT.

 

 

 

bob Paradigm Publications

www.paradigm-pubs.com 44 Linden Street

Robert L. Felt Brookline MA 02445

617-738-4664

 

 

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