Reply to post: Re: Practical action?

Hacker crew nicks '1.2 billion passwords' – but WHERE did they all come from?

Trygve Henriksen

Re: Practical action?

you're kidding, right?

Hotmail and Google at least, have even removed the X-originator line from email headers, so it's now F! impossible to track it back to the sending PC, Open proxy or VPN service.

The only way these days, to find the spambots is to set up a dummy forum and log the IPs of new registrations.

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