[95012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Feb 17 01:24:55 2007
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:23:22 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@infiltrated.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45D5FAE9.4030707@infiltrated.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
J. Oquendo wrote:
>
> After all these years, I'm still surprised a consortium of ISP's
> haven't figured out a way to do something a-la Packet Fence for their
> clients where - whenever an infected machine is detected after logging
> in, that machine is thrown into say a VLAN with instructions on how to
> clean their machines before they're allowed to go further and stay
> online.
This has been commercially available for quite some time so it would be
only up to the providers to implement it.
Pete
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