Saturday, November 27, 2004
Machines coughing
- Nov 27 * new_account@turtle (1047) Your mail password
- Nov 27 * webmaster@email.co (1047) Faulty_mail delivery
- Nov 27 * webmaster@hotmail. (1059) invalid mail <SMTP:8650>
- Nov 27 * Error_Mail@wimborn (1051) Mail delivery_failed <6580>
- Nov 27 * smooth_criminal_00 (1039) Details
- Nov 27 * hostmaster@hotmail (1043) Confirmation
- Nov 27 * shaikin_fati@hotma (1041) Oh God it's
- Nov 27 * Auto-Mailer@valves (1053) Re: Faulty_mail delivery <Esmtp:5394>
- Nov 27 * nasimaqsa@hotmail. (1030) Details
- Nov 27 * Error_Mail@winzyra (1052) Re: Mail delivery_failed
- Nov 27 * info@mailcity.com (1043) Mail Error <SMTP:3234>
- Nov 27 * new_account@talk21 (1045) Re: Registration confirmation
- Nov 27 * Error_Mail@barking (1049) FwD: illegal signs in your mail
- Nov 27 * notifications@grou (1034) Oh God it's
- Nov 27 * info@hotmail.com (1051) Re: Mail delivery_failed <7339>
- Nov 27 * user_info@xtzyra.c (1046) Your Password <KEY:4924>
- Nov 27 * info@hotmail.com (1053) Faulty_mail delivery
- Nov 27 * lubsss@hotmail.com (1034) FwD: Details
Yup. Spam.
Well, more like viral spam, as it's the same box, over and over, trying
to deliver a virus. The IP
address it's coming from is 82.38.57.25, which belongs to blueyonder, an
ISP based out of Surrey,
England.
While I could ban the IP that would only stop perhaps 40% of it, as most of it is coming in via the backup email host for my domain and I don't have the access to block IP addresses there. I did a look up on the IP address (which is how I found out who owns it) and got this:
| inetnum: | 82.38.0.0 - 82.38.255.255 |
|---|---|
| netname: | TELEWEST-HSD_1-BRADFORD |
| descr: | Telewest HSD Platform |
| country: | GB |
| admin-c: | TWIP3-RIPE |
| tech-c: | TWIP1-RIPE |
| status: | ASSIGNED PA |
| mnt-by: | AS5462-MNT |
| mnt-lower: | AS5462-MNT |
| mnt-routes: | AS5462-MNT |
| notify: | ripe@telewest.net |
| notify: | capacity@telewest.co.uk |
| remarks: | report abuse to abuse@blueyonder.co.uk |
| remarks: | All reports via other channels will be ignored. |
| changed: | ripe-admin@blueyonder.co.uk 20030313 |
| source: | RIPE |
As you can see, all abuse issues need to be mailed to abuse@blueyonder.co.uk, which I did:
From: Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
Subject: Infected machine trying to infect my machine
To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:52:55 -0500 (EST)To whom it may concern:
A machine with the IP address of
82.38.57.25is continuously sending me infected files, 12 alone today, and about 20 yesterday (when I first noticed). I'm not concerned terribly much about getting infected (since I run Linux, not Windows) but it is clogging up my email, and no telling how many other systems it's trying to infect. Please deal with this as soon as possible.Thank you.
Sean Conner.
[email sent to me attached]
And as you can see, that was two days ago.
And they're still coming in.
So much for reporting abuse issues.
Today, I went to their broadband support page, and put in a trouble ticket. Maybe then they'll take a look into this.
Update on Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Update on Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
The IDE Divide
The developer world is divided into two camps. Language mavens wax rhapsodic about the power of higher-level programming— first-class functions, staged programming, AOP, MOPs, and reflection. Tool mavens are skilled at the use of integrated build and debug tools, integrated documentation, code completion, refactoring, and code comprehension. Language mavens tend to use a text editor such as emacs or vim these editors are more likely to work for new languages. Tool mavens tend to use IDEs such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, or IntelliJ, that integrate a variety of development tools.
Via Lambda the Ultimate, Oliver Steele: The IDE Divide
I can't stand IDEs. Understandable when you consider that I grew up
without them, and the first IDE I did use, Turbo Pascal 3 (around 1987), was so
painful because the editor sucked compared to what I was used to (IBM's PE v1.0, written in 1982, which should give you an idea of
just how bad I considered the editor under Turbo Pascal 3). Then moving to
the Amiga and Unix, where IDEs wheren't really available (unless one wanted to use
the monstronsity that is emacs) and well … IDEs are just
alien to my way of working (if you thought I was picky about
keyboards, I'm just as stubborn about text editors).
So, according to the above article, I don't know if that makes me a Language maven since for me, it's not necessarily about the language, but what editor I can use (and if I can turn off the annoying tendency for syntax highlighting that is all the rage now).
Perhaps I'm an anti-Tool maven more than I'm a Language maven.
Or perhaps I'm reading into this article more than I should.
