On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:18:34PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote: > > somebody, probably sean, mentioned scaling earlier in this thread. > > > >> coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky.. so bad that > > >> development of cws shredder has been abandoned by its developer.. > ... > > > the first time only about 3 days ago and I got rid of it in 10 minutes! > > > I can see how it would be a problem for a newbie but it shouldn't be > > > anything more than 10 minutes work for anyone here with Windows > > > experience. > ... > > There are dozen of variants, obviously you've seen only one. > > so, this bit of spyware (which was resistant to ad-aware as of last week, > though ad-aware seems to publish a new definition file every day now) relies > on a web site, and that web site relies on the spyware for its traffic and > eyeballs, and the spyware and website are owned/operated/"published" by the > same company. the website does not move around, it's at a fixed location. > > the scaling issue, please: > > "why does that company still have an internet connection?" > > or, to put it less mildly: > > "why does that company's provider still have an upstream?" > > or, to put it in terms you can all understand: > > "why does that provider's upstream still have bgp peers?" > > if you give people the means to hurt you, and they do it, and you take no > action except to continue giving them the means to hurt you, and they take > no action except to keep hurting you, then one of the ways you can describe > the situation is "it isn't scaling well."
http://www.webhelper4u.com/CWS/cwsoriginial.html These folks? Looks like it's all Cogent. Surely someone has contacted Cogent about this? network:ID:NET-42FA4A8019 network:Network-Name:NET-42FA4A8019 network:IP-Network:66.250.74.128/25 network:Org-Name:HyperSpace Communications network:Street-Address: 74 West Street network:City:Waltham network:State:MA network:Postal-Code:02451 network:Country-Code:US network:Tech-Contact:ZC108-ARIN -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)