OT RE: Bogus "account hacked" message

[dwight]

Early on, I had a telephone call where they told me that their testing showed that my computer had a virus. They would fix it for me for only $50. At the time, I didn't even have a computer connected to the web at home ( lived in the mountains ).
Dwight

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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 9:20 AM
To: Dave Wade; General at ezwind.net; Discussion@
Subject: Re: OT RE: Bogus "account hacked" message

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.
>
> 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.....
>
>
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