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Re: 172 msnbot addresses infected with Cutwail, Microsoft once again embarrassed, totally incompetent re security


On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:35:44 +0100, Richard Rasker wrote:

> Gary M. Stewart wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:21:31 +0100, Richard Rasker wrote:
>> 
>>> Whoops, turns out that msnbot machines behind at least 172 different IP
>>> addresses were infected with the Cutwail Trojan, sending out huge
>>> amounts of spam. Here's the list to block:
>> 
>> Where are you getting these from?
>> Just curious.
> 
> From <slrngj82f3.dr3.carel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, and this man got the list
> from Spamhaus XBL. For all the rest, there isn't much publicity about it
> to be found at all.
> 
> Richard Rasker

Spamhaus is a good source for finding this kind of thing.
You can also find which ISPs in which countries have servers spewing spam.
Such as http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/isp_list.lasso

Here are 13 SBL listings for IPs under the responsibility of microsoft.com
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=microsoft.com


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Microsoft is very effective 
at fleecing the flockers.



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