[92469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Fri Sep 22 00:12:58 2006
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:04:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060922040158.GD25525@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> > > Paranoia has its place, but this ain't the place.
> >
> > The report is NOT paranoia. Several LARGE user ISPs suffer immensely from
> > this. Use this information if it is useful to you and you encounter the
> > same problems.
>
> Does it impact the network operation?
>
> Eg, does it adversely affect the network? (say, like Beagle did.)
Not like Bagle did, to my knowledge. That said, this is spreading at an
increasing rate that is unbelievable. That means worms, bots, and yes, ISP
support, network and system personnel time depending on ISP.
>
> Adrian
>
