[88860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Feb 21 11:02:42 2006
To: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Nash <billn@odyssey.billn.net>,
Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:42:20 EST."
<924f29280602210742m7abefca4h83cfb96c882ce9e4@mail.gmail.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:02:11 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:42:20 EST, Jason Frisvold said:
>
> On 2/21/06, Bill Nash <billn@odyssey.billn.net> wrote:
> > If you're talking about a compulsory software solution, why not, as an
> > ISP, go back to authenticated activity? Distribute PPPOE clients mated
> > with common anti-spyware/anti-viral tools. Pull down and update signatures
> > *every time* the user logs in, and again periodically while the user is
> > logged in (for those that never log out). Require these safeguards to be
> > active before they can pass the smallest traffic.
>
> Cost prohibitive.. In order to do that you'll need licenses from the
> AV companies..
Oddly enough, AOL and several other large providers seem to have no problems
advertising some variant on 'free A/V software'.
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