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Just got another splurge of these in the logs:

• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:20 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/formmail.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:21 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/formmail.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:23 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/FormMail.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:24 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/FormMail.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:26 +0100] "GET /cgi-sys/formmail.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:27 +0100] "GET /cgi-sys/formmail.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:28 +0100] "GET /cgi-sys/FormMail.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:30 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/Formmail.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:31 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/mail.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 285 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:32 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/FORMMAIL.PL HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:34 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/FormMail2.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 210.187.41.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:35 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/FormMail2.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 62.138.207.18 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:36 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/FormMail2.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• customer-148-223-204-13.uninet.net.mx - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:47 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/FormMail2.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• ac0.emirates.net.ae - - [22/Sep/2003:12:19:53 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/FormMail2.pl HTTP/1.1" 404 302 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"
• 211.251.52.2 - - [22/Sep/2003:12:20:03 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/FormMail2.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 290 "http://www.clarkeology.com/" "-"

Anyone got any idea what to do with these? Is there a clever thing I can put in my cgi-bin with the name formmail.pl that will make the requesting machine explode?

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