OT RE: Bogus "account hacked" message

[Jon Elson]

On 01/10/2019 01:19 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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> I was going to say that permanent blocks on IP addresses seems fruitless.
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> 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.....
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Well, they are not "permanent".  I forget what I have it set 
to, but after some time it does expire them from 
hosts.deny   Likely, I could set that sunset period shorter.

Jon