Re: a good offense or a good deffense

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:34:12 -0400

Don't be so sure that it's a person, and not a zombie/compromised computer.
Don't get involved in revenge games...just head off attacks at the pass. If
you're really interested, try finding out the IP address & the owner of that
netblock, and report the issue to the abuse address listed.

www.arin.net/whois may help.

a good offense is better wrote:
> instead of sitting here waiting for a hacker to finally get me can't
> i do something to their attemps to get me, other than reporting to
> hacker watch, is there something i can install to give back to a
> hacker to make his life more miserable??

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