[64777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Portscans/PROXY scans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Nov 2 00:15:20 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 02 Nov 2003 05:14:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <3FA43585.2010509@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
suresh@outblaze.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian) writes:
> Portscans on the internet are a fact of life - unpleasant, yes, but you
> can safely ignore them, and instead, concentrate on keeping your systems
> secured.
that is certainly what the malware authors and users hope that we'll all do,
so listen up. just because many of the infected hosts won't be disinfected,
don't assume that there's no value in tracking and reporting them, or that
there's no reason to spend money listening to and acting on complains about
them. the internet's immune system needs *more* resources, not fewer.
--
Paul Vixie
