[63444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Mon Oct 6 00:14:41 2003
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 00:12:07 -0400
To: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <p06100324bba551ceef5f@[192.168.1.104]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:57 AM 10/5/2003, you wrote:
>At 2:11 AM +0000 10/5/03, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>For more fun, consider that you are postmaster@somewhere.com, and get those
>
>It's the anti-virus ones that drive me nuts. "Someone in your domain sent
>us a virus which always forges the from line, but we're going to tell you
>anyway because we'd like you to buy our software..."
What gets me is the moron admins who track down every "attack" they see.
"Attacks" such as ICMP echo requests, Port 80 connections, etc. If they get
huge logs that's one thing, but for four pings from a windows box or a
mistyped IP address in a URL and they are worried about our "attack" These
bogus reports outnumber legitimate complaints 4:1.
-Robert
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