Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

Wed Aug 13 13:52:12 UTC 2003

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:01, Mike Jezierski - BOFH wrote:
> 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.

Catch 22 ...  Block the virus, get accused of being a censor.  Allow the
virus, get accused of being a carrier...

*sigh*

> -- Mike
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