[61887] in North American Network Operators' Group
"Free" cleaning tools for worms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Sep 8 16:47:22 2003
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Ray Wong <rayw@rayw.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030908175514.GF22393@rayw.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Ray Wong wrote:
> Of course, since we STILL have to handhold users into doing things, why
> not just download the patches to our own servers, and either make CDs as
> a courtesy to customers, or setup a quarantine network we shove them off
> to, which only has access to our local patch server? M$ still does have
> everything downloadable, for those of us who can figure out how to do it.
Its called Copyright law, but that's a layer 9 issue.
What's the difference between downloading patches on demand through a
squid cache, and keeping the file on your web server. Akamai really sucks
for predicting where downloads will be sourced.
On a more practical subject does anyone know of any useful cleaning tools
for last months windows worms besides the "free" tools from the anti-virus
vendors? Are there any freeware tools? Or any AV vendor willing to
distribute their single fix tools through ISPs (with a link buy the full
version)?
