[72876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Convention networks and viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Gauthier)
Thu Jul 29 12:59:17 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:47:30 -0400
From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040729035444.H86242-100000@www.mauigateway.com>; from surfer@mauigateway.com on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:06:59AM -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> A buncha technically clueless newsgeeks brought infected micro$loth
> computers into a convention? Shocking! What's this world coming to???
> Sounds like Verizon hired low-end netgeeks if they had to bring the
> network down to find these infected computers.
Maybe they could have benifited from attending Nanog in Miami:
** Airborne Contagion: Effects of a Worm on Wireless Networking
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/chin.html
** Life on a University Network: An Architecture for Automatically
Detecting, Isolating, and Cleaning Infected Hosts
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/gauthier.html
I mean, when the Universities deal with this stuff better than you do,
you have to start to wonder ;)
Eric :)
