[77712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Thu Feb 3 10:14:34 2005
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:12:09 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Joel Perez <jperez@numind.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E6E861E857C35B4497DD27492E61D7C201F2F78B@numind-mail-new.numind.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Joel Perez wrote:
>I keep reading these articles and reports about this botnet and that
>botnet problem and how many user's pc's are infected.
>The only thing I don't see is a way to remove these bots!
>Not everyone knows how to even look at their machines for signs of these
>bots. Heck, I know most of my guys here don't even know how these bots
>work.
>
>It would be impossible to educate everybody but it's better to try than
>sitting around blocking this and that and not really solving the issue
>at hand.
>
>
>
That again. Thats not an operational problem. Thats a help desk issue.
Operational is mail-ops nailing these infected people and net-ops
cutting them off at the knees and yanking their connectivity. This is
exactly the direction we want things to be heading.
