[98014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Jul 23 16:15:11 2007
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: ops.lists@gmail.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:48:05 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0707231021r5da91536md305c308244fdab8@mail.gmail.com> from "Suresh Ramasubramanian" at Jul 23, 2007 10:51:15 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> On 7/23/07, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> > All right, here we go. Please explain the nature of the bot on my freshly
> > installed (last night) FreeBSD 6.2R box.
>
> %age of freshly installed freebsd 6.2R boxes v/s random windows boxes
> on cox cable?
That's fairly irrelevant. The fact is that this isn't targetting infected
boxes, it's targetting everyone.
> Like anything else, its a numbers game.
All of computing is a numbers game. That doesn't make it right to go around
breaking random services just because it might fix some random problem.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
