Subject: Brute Force Attack - (www.domainame.com) This is not spam. You receive this notification on request Sender Robot Control Pro. Your website protection system ------------------------------------------------------------------- An visitor started a brute force attack on your website located at: http://www.domainame.com The attacker is stopped as requested after 3 attempts The IP address of the attacker has been banned! More details on this attacker ------------------------------------------------------------------- Date/time: Sat Aug 9 01:37:55 2003 Directory under Atack: http://www.domainame.com/members/ Username: rscubs23 UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 ( compatible; [fr]; Windows 98; DigiExt ) IP address: 203.186.239.53 Host name: 203186239053.ctinets.com Referer Url: (if available) http://www.carriepass.com/freelp/members.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- IP Whois: http://domainame.com/findip.cgi=203.186.239.53 A brute-force attack is a password-recovery technique in which every possible combination of letters and numbers are tested one-by-one until the correct password is found. this technique can find passwords from 1 to 8 characters. Its strongly recommended to keep the attacker IP address permanently banned from access to your website/server. If in the above details a useragent is displayed and its not a standard internet browser then add it to your blacklist! if this is a mistake or a test and you wish to give the above user again access to your website/server then remove the IP address from your banned group list. If you no longer wish to receive email notifications for each approved visitor. Turn it off in the admin area. http://domainame.com/cgi-bin/robot/admin.cgi ------------------------------------------------------------------- Robot Control Pro - Powered by www.webcomposing.com