On 17 December 2003, Jim Dukarm said:
> Yes, an ISP I talked to pointed out that most of this activity is
> driven by worms. My first attempt at dealing with this problem was to
> respond with a redirect to www.yahoo.com after a 10-second delay, but
> this actually seemed to stimulate some of the "scanning" computers to
> try more often. Maybe not responding at all will cause them to go away.

That seems rather rude to yahoo.  Surely they have enough worm-load
already.  If the worms actually implement redirecting (unlikely), a
redirect to 127.0.0.1 would be much more appropriate.  ;->

        Greg
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