[61804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More universities take action to block unpatched/infected computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Fri Sep 5 01:50:42 2003
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:49:39 +1000
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0309042305080.29789-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
>Universities have one big advantage; they are a campus and can distribute
>CDROMs with the fix or have students come to the computer center.
>
>
The doesn't mean ISPs shouldn't do anything though.
/ Mat
Perhaps if ISPs disconnected infected hosts quickly then there would be
a greater reason for home and corporate users to get patched up promptly.
