[61439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Aug 28 18:10:19 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:09:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030828154919.02779d90@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It should be pointed put that the ISPs have their share of blame for the
quick-spreading worms, beause they neglected very simple precautions --
such as giving cutomers pre-configured routers or DSL/cable modems with
firewalls disabled by default (instead of the standard "end-user, let only
outgoing connections thru" configuration), and providing insufficient
information to end-users on configuring these firewalls.
--vadim
