OT RE: Bogus "account hacked" message

[Dave Wade]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Jay West via
> cctalk
> Sent: 09 January 2019 12:53
> To: 'John Foust' <jfoust at threedee.com>; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and
> Off-Topic Posts' <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: OT RE: Bogus "account hacked" message
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of John
Foust
> via cctalk
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 6:33 AM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Bogus "account hacked" message
> 
> At 08:56 PM 1/8/2019, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> >I currently have 9000-some blocked IPs in hosts.deny, I wonder how much
> that slows down my store.  Ugh, the stuff we are forced to go through.
> 
> Now you've increased your chances by 9000x that someday someone will
> complain that they can't reach your site.  You said "botnet" right?
> 
> - John
> 
I was going to say that permanent blocks on IP addresses seems fruitless. 

I assume that BotNets are compromised end user machines, and that the end
users that have them are on standard dynamic IP address, so when some one
gets one of your blocked addresses.....

Dave