[152390] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operation Ghost Click
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ameen Pishdadi)
Fri Apr 27 20:34:39 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F9B30B3.5090000@mompl.net>
From: Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:35:51 -0500
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If the user is stupid enough to be infected for that long I think it's a goo=
d thing they get cut off from the net , should be a policy of all ISPs , If y=
our infected then you lose privilege to get online and thus you can't scan a=
nd infect other idiots or become a ddos tool for the script kiddies. I for o=
ne say turn em off!!!!
Thanks,
Ameen Pishdadi
On Apr 27, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
> O'Reirdan, Michael wrote:
>> Please look at www.dcwg.org
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> Thanks all for the information.
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> It looks like the practical upshot is that computers that have been infect=
ed and not yet fixed may loose the ability to resolve names into IP addresse=
s starting sometime after July 9, which is when the replacement nameservers a=
re supposed to be stopped.
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> That in and of itself is quite a nuisance for the individual as well as th=
e ISP helldesks but it could have been worse. I would certainly not call it "=
Internet doomsday".
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> Greetings,
> Jeroen
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> Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9
> Date: Friday, April 27, 2012 21:51:23 UTC
> Location: Prince Edward Islands region
> Latitude: -41.1063; Longitude: 43.4278
> Depth: 10.00 km
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