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<p class=MsoNormal>Over the last few days I’ve noticed we’re
getting a lot of spam from the IP range 209.152.178.0/24<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Normally with subjects such as Win Free Laser Eye Surgery -
Optical Express<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For example...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>X-Greylist: delayed 00:20:01 by SQLgrey-1.7.5<br>
Received: from permforce.com (248.permforce.com [209.152.178.248])<br>
by gateway.birchenallhowden.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id
981F71D707EA<br>
for <XXXX@XXXXXXXXX>; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:44:03 +0000
(GMT)<br>
Received: by permforce.com id hk48560ikece for < XXXX@XXXXXXXXX >; Sun,
22 Feb 2009 08:24:00 +0000 (envelope-from <wonderful@permforce.com>)<br>
Date: 22 Feb 2009 08:24:00 GMT<br>
Message-Id: <11F9D156843.9Dk4F71C@permforce.com><br>
From: Vision Repair<wonderful@permforce.com><br>
To: XXXX@XXXXXXXXX<br>
Subject: Win Free Laser Eye Surgery - Optical Express<br>
Mime-Version: 1.0<br>
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They’re coming from different addresses in that range
and different domains such as unaskedtool.com unaskeddrive.com. The emails are
all getting nuked by spamassassin and sanesecurity defs so far.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone else know much about this range and if could
just safely block the entire /24 range?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jason<o:p></o:p></p>
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