Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Fri Aug 29 06:55:10 UTC 2003


Vadim Antonov wrote:

>It should be pointed put that the ISPs have their share of blame for the
>quick-spreading worms, beause they neglected very simple precautions --
>such as giving cutomers pre-configured routers or DSL/cable modems with
>firewalls disabled by default (instead of the standard "end-user, let only
>outgoing connections thru" configuration), and providing insufficient
>information to end-users on configuring these firewalls.
>
>  
>
And you´re willing to pay all the helpdesk persons helping these people 
to adjust their
configurations to accommodate for KaZaa, BitTorrent, Quake3, Counter 
Strike, etc?

It would be much easier and more centralized if the networking 
interfaces in operating systems
would not expose services by default. But were already went there.

Pete





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