Gotcha! The spam has an embedded link that would cause Quicktime to send
messages back to a hidden tracking server three times during playback.
I have that spammer blocked already in the Fullsize Hostiles List. In fact, I
decided to block all of their address space because no legitimate gnutella user
would have an internet account in there anyway.
Code:
Registrant:
Skyrider
201A Ravendale Dr
Mountain View, California 95035
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: LINKDISTRO.COM
Created on: 19-Feb-06
Expires on: 19-Feb-09
Last Updated on:
Administrative Contact:
Operations, Skyrider operations@skyrider.com
Skyrider
201A Ravendale Dr
Mountain View, California 95035
United States
6503535011
Technical Contact:
Operations, Skyrider operations@skyrider.com
Skyrider
201A Ravendale Dr
Mountain View, California 95035
United States
6503535011
Domain servers in listed order:
NS5.SECURESERVER.NET
NS6.SECURESERVER.NET
I heard about Skyrider months ago, when they first announced their plan to
spam gnutella, and blocked their host, Go Daddy Software, Inc pre-emptively.
Looks like I guessed right.
If you have
LimeWire 4.13 you can use my
[ fullsize hostiles list] to protect
yourselves. Odds are high my blocks on all of Go Daddy will block this stuff.
If you want to firewall their asses too, here are their current ranges:
Go Daddy Software, Inc:64.202.160.0-64.202.191.255
Go Daddy Software, Inc:68.178.128.0-68.178.255.255
Go Daddy Software, Inc:208.109.0.0-208.109.255.255
Go Daddy Software, Inc:216.69.128.0-216.69.191.255
If you really want to burn their plan use Media Player Classic to watch all .mov
files from now on. It has none of those security backdoors so that spammer
will never get to track you.
The trailer for Pride was pretty good, by the way. Definitely a movie you'd
take the girlfriend to see.
