=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - P.I.S.S. Philez Number 29 = = - - Coping With Mailbombing = = - - by Defenestrator = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Yes folks, you all know the drill. You open your email box and you see like 300 messages full of nothing, or even worse, subscribed to 50 mail lists like "Gay Plumber's Repair". This, of course, is mailbombing. Mailbombing is normally done by people who want to get back at others who make them mad. This is normally done by lamers who don't know jack shit about doing REAL things to people (not like I do them though ;) ) and they just open a program and BAM, instant harrassment. I used to do this when I had no actual hacking knowledge (many could say I still don't, but they can fuck themselves) and just wanted to feel like I could ruin someone's life. I still do it sometimes, though without a program, just with Linux commands. However, I haven't done it in several months. Now I know that mailbombing is pointless, because you can jsut delete the mails (ooohhh...15 seconds worth of work) or if you're subscribed to mail lists, block sender of all the maillists. I'm not going to rehash that. I'm gonna tell you how to tell who mailbombed you and how to get them back. If you know someone has mailbombed you, turn on something called extended headers. This will show the entire route the mail took to get in your mailbox. The beginning part will be what you saw normally, which implicates no one. But if you look closer, you see all the hops along the route. Look at either the first or second one. It should show an email address which does NOT look like a router because it has a username which someone might actually use. This is either his email address or how he connected to the net. So you run a finger on that email address, and if something comes up, then you've got him. If not, then try changing the domain name around and eventually you will get it. Whatever it is, you at least have his username. If you catch this guy, you can either mailbomb him back and be stupid, or send a message to root@hisdomain or postmaster@hisdomain with a copy of the mailbomb (for proof) and tell the guy that he mailbombed you and just make up some bullshit like that (well actually it wouldn't be bullshit). It will probably get him kicked off his ISP, which is a royal pain in the ass for those that have gone through it. If you didn't think I explained this too well, or have ONE copy of a mailbomb you'd like me to work on, mail me at defenestrator@hotmail.com . If you want to mailbomb me, mailbomb dev/null@hotmail.com . That really pisses me off when you mail dev/null. Defenestrator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PISS - People into Serious Shit Founderz - Defenestrator, PhrostByte Memberz - Author Parselon Wu Forever kQs CGibbons Extinction Faekon/Homarid Grench Greenseed Tim 121 Rhodekyll Dial Tone Psycho Phreak Djdude Circular Reclusion Havok Luther AT2Screech Contributors- Sameer Ketkar PISS, the author, and anyone else does not take responsibility for what you do with the stuff contained in this file. If you get busted, don't cry to us. We don't care. Want more stuff? Go to http://www.angelfire.com/sc/PISS/philez.html The site will change as soon as I get money for one.. E-mail the group at chrisbarron@hotmail.com (C) Copyright 1997 PISS Publications and also copyrighted by the author. This file may be posted freely as long as this notice stays on the end. All rights reserved.