[61478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Omachonu Ogali)
Fri Aug 29 10:14:22 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:11:01 -0400
From: Omachonu Ogali <nanog@missnglnk.com>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0308281504390.10714-100000@gato.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:09:22PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> 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.
Yes, fingerpointing fixes everything. I remember a quote my music
teacher used to tell the class, "for every one finger you point at
someone else, four fingers are pointing back at you".
