[84659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: router worms and International Infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Sep 19 17:26:26 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:24:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0509192116240.26672@parapet.argfrp.us.uu.net>
(Christopher L. Morrow's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:16:57 +0000
(GMT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Christopher L. Morrow:
> I'm curious as to why people think that the problem isn't being
> addressed?
Do you see a business case for ISPs to help mass-market customers to
clean up their infected PCs?
I still hear claims from the ISP folks that anything but prevention
isn't viable, and all available data suggests that prevention is an
utter and complete failure. (Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but
you get the idea.)
