[88853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Feb 21 08:46:52 2006
In-Reply-To: <p06230900c020bb38e9b0@[192.168.3.66]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:45:01 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 7:45 AM -0500 2/21/06, John Curran wrote:
>
>From the web site: "Only a selected set of web sites will remain available, for example Microsoft update and the websites of several anti-virus software companies. The quarantine server tells users what is going on and how this problem can be resolved."
>
>One hopes that the Apple web site and online credit form is included in the list... ;-)
Alright, in fairness to MSFT, a pointer to Vista/Longhorn (once available)
and instructions to only enter your Admin password during bona fide sw
installations would also go a long way towards preventing recurrence...
:-)
/John
