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Open Socks Proxy Server Block List

servers which have open socks proxies which are being abused, are listed here.

Currently testing mainly for open socks5 services, operating on port 1080.

Consists of collections of domain named hosts or IP address networks, which are being abused by spammers, due to them running an insecure (open) socks proxy server.

WinGate is one of the usual suspects, though many personal type 'internet gateway sharing' type packages seem to be open by default also.

Spammers use these open proxies to hide their identity, and then usually abuse another open relay server, to further confuse and hide their identities.

The use of open proxies and open relays can entirely hide the identity and origin of spammers, so they are a very bad thing indeed.

There are currently very few tools around for testing for these open proxies, so the numbers here will be small, until those tools are developed further.

See this page of a web based, public, registry, of open proxy server. http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/

And this little gem, from a similar page. proxies
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