[98009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Jul 23 14:54:34 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:04:12 GMT
To: sean@donelan.com
Cc: jgreco@ns.sol.net, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
>> So how do you connect to the real IRC server, then? Remember that mo=
st
>> end users are not nslookup-wielding shell commandos who can figure ou=
t
>> whois and look up the IP.
>
>If those users are so technically unsophisticated, do you really expect=
=
the other users with infected computers to figure out how to disinfect =
their computer and remove the Bots instead?
>
I would imagine that if we're talking about "unsophisticated" users,
the majority of them have no idea what IRC is anyway -- most of them
are using AIM, or Yahoo! IM, or....
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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