(This started on July 5 at 14:03 and is still going on as of June 9 at around midnight EST. -- UPDATE: As of 9:30 June 10, it seems to have stopped! I'll update when I know for sure.) The user at 'flainc@HOTMAIL.COM' is redirecting all gnutella queries to my email address (matt@steinhoff.net). As such, I'm getting overrun by people emailing me looking for stuff. If you have done a gnutella (or clone) search in the past few days, you probably have seen my name... gnut> find anything CURRENT RESPONSES ----------------- 1) email matt@steinhoff.net for kiddie porn and anything 216.10.33.21:6345 size:80.854M ref:84279680 speed:10000 It all started when I noticed that every query I submitted returned an html file. In that html file was a link to 'http://www.cybergirlsex.com/rawcash/click.cgi?tella'... gnut> find anything and everything CURRENT RESPONSES ----------------- 1) anything and everything.html 216.100.51.42:6345 size:2.83K ref:234946611 speed:10000 gnut> find nothing at all CURRENT RESPONSES ----------------- 1) nothing at all.html 216.100.51.42:6345 size:2.83K ref:117638272 speed:10000 I figured that an ambitious person had hacked gnutella in order to promote the web site so that he'd get some extra cash. I sent email to the the owner of 216.100.51.42 and they promptly shut off the user's connection. I also sent email to cybergirlsex.com in hopes that they wouldn't pay the user 'tella' for the referrals. Spam shouldn't pay no matter how it is done, right? Ever since I sent the email message to the domain admin for the porn site, my name and server address has been showing up in each and every gnutella response. Cause and effect (and a bit more) leads me to believe that the porn site was 'tella' and they are not happy that I've cut into their revenue stream. With a bit of investigative work I was able to tie the user who is spamming gnutella with the user who admins the porn site and more than two dozen other domains. I've got the guy booted off a number of services in the past couple days but that isn't much help (though it does make me feel a bit better). It's like playing wack the mole; hit him in one place and he pops up again elsewhere. I'm getting hundreds of email messages from people either looking for child porn or wanting me dead for supplying child porn. (Of note, of course, I don't have any child porn so stop asking.) I've contacted the FBI's computer crimes division and I'm sure they are far more interested in the folks emailing me looking for kiddie porn than they are in getting rid of the slime ball spamming my email address. At least the kiddie porn angle got their attention or I imagine this wouldn't have even made their radar. I'm already filtering my email so that I don't have to read through hoards of email. (Did I mention that he has also signed me up to dozens of mailing lists?) While tracking and smacking the first day was exciting, today it's a bit of a drag. Any good ideas will return my eternal gratitude.