From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 21:37:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F211065674 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:37:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7A38FC0C for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4AFE7209; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:37:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from core.nessbank (client-81-107-141-216.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [81.107.141.216]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:37:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Bruce Cran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:37:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.5.2; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011022137.18690.bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Rob Farmer , "Justin V." Subject: Re: SSHgaurd and PF X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:37:21 -0000 On Tuesday 02 November 2010 16:56:33 Rob Farmer wrote: > I wouldn't waste your time trying to find out who they are - just > block and move on. That site is probably a shared web hosting account > that was compromised by a bad php script - even if you successfully > complain (assuming it is a legit hoster that cares) and they do > something about it, there are thousands more. Yes but it's one less. Most recently I emailed a VPS provider and got the owner's account suspended after they ran an ssh attack on my server. -- Bruce Cran