15 Jun
2004
15 Jun
'04
22:31
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 00.25, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Sid, I have the ability and facilities to trace-back spam, until I find an open relay. You stated that your friend can go to the source. I still would like to know how. Please ask your friend to enlighten us. Or, tell us that this is not possible.
Sure it's possible, if you have access to hubs/switches at major ISPs and can look at logs. But it's not easy. Especially when the spammers go through machines in Asia where even if they keep logs, they are extremely reluctant to show them. Another problem is that a lot of spam these days originate from viruses and trojans, so even if you manage to trace the spam to the sender, you still haven't found the real culprit.