[113051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Confiker Virus hype and measures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Mon Mar 30 21:29:14 2009
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:25:46 +0300
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: "Stasiniewicz, Adam" <stasinia@msoe.edu>
In-Reply-To: <002001c9b152$36a530c0$a3ef9240$@edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Stasiniewicz, Adam wrote:
> So from a network operational perspective, unless the virus author
> decides to launch a DDOS on a single target (and one is either that
> network or its upstream) I predict this will have little, if any, effect.
>
Agreed.
Although being ready to answer your abuse mail to null-route on your
networks could be helpful to the community.
Gadi.
