[77745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Feb 3 16:35:53 2005
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:35:26 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7581A71201AA44499B0C1A0B5126D1A0012DE3F3@ITDENE2KM04.AD.QINTRA.COM>
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On 02/03/05, "Miller, Mark" <mark.miller@qwest.com> wrote:
> How come it is always about controlling the symptoms and not the
> illness? The vast majority of these
> "spam drones" are compromised WINDOWS machines. If the operating system
> and dominant email applications so easily allows the users' machines to
> be taken over by a third party, then there is something wrong with the
> operating system and the mail applications. It occurs to me that the
> solution is not to limit the range of destruction, but to defuse the
> bomb. Perhaps the focus for a solution should move up the model to
> layer 7.
Upgrading and/or replacing the OS for every Windows user on the
planet is an educational issue. Keeping the network viable
while you figure out how to do that is an operational issue.
--
J.D. Falk uncertainty is only a virtue
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> when you don't know the answer yet
