Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

Tue Aug 12 19:01:55 UTC 2003

At 11:40 -0700 8/12/03, Randy Bush wrote:
>  > As a larger than average end user and what could
>>  be called a small ISP,  I really can not image
>>  legitimate traffic on 135..
>>  who in there right mind would pass NB traffic in the wild?
>
>the days of giving intelligence tests to customers is long gone.
>the job of an isp is to deliver packets.  maybe your customer
>is foolish.  but break their ceo's access and you're their ex-
>isp.
>
>randy

My experience seems to be that as the ISP we're blamed when the 
subscribers gets a virus, because after all it's our network that 
sent the customer the virus.

-- Mike