Find original ip address

Dave Ihnat dihnat at dminet.com
Mon Nov 23 14:50:50 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:10:40PM +1100, Steve Phillips wrote:
> Spammers these days are very proficient at forging headers and masking where
> they originated from.

That's all true.  That said, however, most times they simply don't
bother.  The message usually originates from a pwned machine that's a
member of a botnet, and the spammer really doesn't care if you know
that machine's IP.

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
	dihnat at dminet.com




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