hmmm.
well, perhaps part of it was meant as a joke.
still, I'd need a way to tell the far side that
1. they are infected
2. e-mail the sysadmin of the ISP that owns the ip range
3. etc.
meanwhile, I've got a 200 megabyte log here, and thats just the last 4
days!
Technomage Hawke
Kurt Granroth wrote:
>
> On Friday 10 August 2001 06:55 pm, Technomage wrote:
> > does anyone happen to have the format (internal setup) of the
> > default.ida file?
> >
> > I've been seeing a lot of hits for it and I would like to redirected
> > them to a known page (A pickure of a biker flipping the camera a birdy
> > with the caption: hack this!)
>
> I don't see the benefit of doing this at all. Those accesses aren't some
> hacker doing it manually.. it's an automated program doing it without the
> knowledge of the owner of the box. So if you redirect this script to a
> different page, *nobody* and *nothing* will see it.... but you will cause
> that much more 'net traffic to be wasted during the redirect and cause some
> server (the one with the picture) to waste time serving a picture that nobody
> or nothing will ever see.
>
> I just don't get it.
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