Anti-Scammers Become Storm Botnet Victims

capnkr writes "It looks like the efforts of the anti-scammers at sites like 419eater, Scamwarners, Artists Against 419, and possibly others have become the target of the Storm botnet. Spamnation has a post about it, and as of this writing none of the above listed sites are responding. Spamnation reports that CastleCops and other anti-spam forums are being DDoSed as well. Sounds like a massive, concerted effort against the folks who are fighting the good fight. Although I hate it for the owners and admins of the above sites, I think it shows without a doubt that their efforts to 'get back' at the scammers are working."

Comments

Solution

[JamesRose]

Right a piece of code that detects if the storm bot virii are present, then have it format the hard drive. If their computer is putting other computers with real work to do in danger they should be deleted until the administrator learns to use it. Seems harsh but trying to fix a computer thats already infected is almost impossible to do, as they keep changing the virii, so carpet bomb it.

Wait a minute

[Mr. Freeman]

"Look, these sites are being DDosed, let's post them on slashdot". Doesn't exactly seem like the best idea ever.