mac address firewall?

]>If it's so easy then why do some virus writers get caught when they are ] ^^^^^^^^ ]>stupid enough to upload the virus from their own PC? ] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You answered your own question. There are various "grades" of stupidity, and that guy took the top prize.

The only way you can hide is to anonymously relay it through open relays. The problem for law enforcement is the a vast number of the boxes on the Internet today are wide open relays. Check the "Received:" headers on the spam you receive - most of those are open relays.

My understanding was that idiot got caught because of embedded serial numbers in the wonderful software that was used. Most wankers today think that the only way to create text that will be used for source code is to use MS Turd, or something out of Orifice2003 - and can't understand why the _source_ file for 'hello.c' is a 24k windoze file. In case you forgot (or are not a programmer), the entire source is

#include main() { printf("hello, world\\n"); }

which is 60 characters (including the newlines) total. What's all the rest of the crap in that windoze file? Guess - or use a disk-editor to find out. You might be horrified to know what's in there.

The reason there are a million victims is that nine hundred ninety nine thousand of them shouldn't be trying to use anything as complicated as a digital clock - never mind having access to a computer with or without a connection to the Internet.

Old guy

Haha...that's quite true.

I'm not a programmer but I understood what you were saying, thx.

So you connect to the internet (through your ISP, CyberCafe, Library, whatever) they have a log of you connecting. Their DHCP server assigns you an address. You fire off an email (originating from that IP address) containing a "new" virus. See the trail?

Obviosuly you didn't read this.

Interesting read, hoewver, "obviosuly you didn't read this": "[Just one example]"

I read it but it didn't pertain to the point I was making.