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Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Wed Jun 13 15:20:42 2007

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:19:37 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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> The fine people at the FBI are recommending people call their ISP for 
> home computer technical support, even though most ISPs don't sell 
> home computers, operating system software or application software.

Sounds like an opportunity, someone will want to buy that custom

> BTW, 1 million compromised computers is probably a low estimate.

100 aware users is probably a high estimate

brandon

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