[133509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Operational] Internet Police
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Dec 10 12:48:25 2010
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:48:18 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14CE55@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/10/2010 11:45 AM, George Bonser wrote:
> If
> an ISP were to actively disconnect clients who were infected with a bot
> (intentionally infected or not), the end users themselves might be a
> little more vigilant at keeping their systems free of them.*But* any
> ISP doing that would also have to be prepared to invest some effort in
> trying to help absolutely clueless people (in many cases) remove these
> bots from their systems.
Works well for the most part, and if they are clueless, they can seek
professional help from a computer tech.
Jack
