[78771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IBM to offer service to bounce unwanted e-mail back to the computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vicky Rode)
Tue Mar 22 14:55:03 2005
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:52:24 -0800
From: Vicky Rode <vickyr@socal.rr.com>
Reply-To: vickyr@socal.rr.com
To: Colin Johnston <colinj@mx5.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
Andreas Ott <andreas@naund.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <BE662108.11B3D%colinj@mx5.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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Why even bother responding. Just imagine frontbridge (using them an
example, I have no affiliation with them) responding to each and every
spam they block..something like 7 terrabytes of data per week or so. I
guess this is one way to justify for more bandwidth :-)
regards,
/virendra
Colin Johnston wrote:
| The better idea would be fingerprint the spam to match the bot used to
match
| the exploit used to run the bot to then reverse exploit back to the
| exploited machine patching in the process.
| I managed to setup such a system a while ago with nimda traffic however I
| could not a find a software tool which exploited a nimda exploited machine
| which could then patch it and remove the virus
| (Ie a remote doctor without you knowing :)
|
| Colin Johnston
|
|
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