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Paul
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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: Proactive Alerts: Am I a bot? |
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| Quote: | | Welcome to CastleCops®. Your IP address [x] matches our records for possible malicious activity observed on the Internet at 2008-01-27 08:03:36 UTC. If that IP address belonged to you, then we suggest you follow our Malware Removal and Prevention Procedures. If not, then this alert may not affect you. Contact administration to have the alert removed. This notice is in cooperation with {organization}, whose records are kept here in confidence at CastleCops. |
So we're teamed up with a few organizations and the idea materialized that we could use botnet data, etc, stored locally here at CastleCops and compare that to visitor IPs. All IP information stays on site. If your IP has been seen to conduct malicious activity on the Internet, we'll let you know. Here is what the current alert looks like (attached below).
Depending on the organization we're partnering to do this with, there may be a link to their site explaining in detail what was seen. For all alerts, we suggest stepping through our Malware Removal Prevention procedure:
http://wiki.castlecops.com/MRP
The IP list in its entirety will not be re-published here.
We're always looking to improve how we can make the world a better place, so feedback is always appreciated.
Thank you everyone.
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Mister2
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That would be a great help to both site and visitor, and it sits well with the line below the notice: | Quote: | | making the world a better place |
I wonder if we should set up a separate forum solely for the purpose of requesting removal of an alert - either false alarms or after cleanup through MRP? Just thinking of the workload on Admin. 
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Cudni
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This sounds like a great service to the community, could there be a little note or a link to explain how to establish or what it means that an ip address belongs to somebody?
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Cudni
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sure, i'll draft something up
may we know what other organisation CC teamed up, or is that planned for later when links are established?
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blacklupine
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Should you include an explanation as to the difference between a static and a dynamic IP address? Was thinking about visitors with a dynamic IP address who could get warnings relating to their current IP which had been used by another infected computer prior to them. They would then be under the impression that their computer was infected.
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johnlgalt
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Excellent - and I hope I *never* have to see tis message on any computer / network that I work on....
Of course, it will also help me work on said computers and networks - if I ever *do* see that message, the things come down and the cleaning begins.
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