[88805] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Feb 20 17:35:25 2006
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:40:48 +0200."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:34:40 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:40:48 +0200, Gadi Evron said:
> Many ISP's who do care about issues such as worms, infected users
> "spreading the love", etc. simply do not have the man-power to handle
> all their infected users' population.
>
> It is becoming more and more obvious that the answer may not be at the
> ISP's doorstep, but the ISP's are indeed a critical part of the
> solution. What their eventual role in user safety will be I can only
> guess, but it is clear (to me) that this subject is going to become a
> lot "hotter" in coming years.
The ISPs will be a part of the solution. However, ISPs fall into two major
categories:
1) The ones that read the types of lists that you posted this to
2) The ones that have the problem.
You're preaching to the choir, Gadi - and if there's *one* thing I'd like a
solution for, it's *that* problem. How do you get the unwashed masses of ISPs
to join the choir so you can preach to them?
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