[63446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Oct 6 00:49:53 2003
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:19:01 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
Cc: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031005010304.04326648@mail1.tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Robert Boyle [10/6/2003 9:42 AM] :
> 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.
99% of them autogenerated by "personal firewall products". That include
*screenshots* of "attack reports".
Those can be safely auto-trashed, 99.999% of them are completely bogus
stuff like "your DNS server is hacking me!!!!"
srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com> gpg# EDEDEFB9
Security and Antispam Operations Manager, Outblaze Limited
