Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

Robert Boyle robert at tellurian.com
Mon Oct 6 04:12:07 UTC 2003


At 12:57 AM 10/5/2003, you wrote:

>At 2:11 AM +0000 10/5/03, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>For more fun, consider that you are postmaster at somewhere.com, and get those
>
>It's the anti-virus ones that drive me nuts.  "Someone in your domain sent 
>us a virus which always forges the from line, but we're going to tell you 
>anyway because we'd like you to buy our software..."

What gets me is the moron admins who track down every "attack" they see. 
"Attacks" such as ICMP echo requests, Port 80 connections, etc. If they get 
huge logs that's one thing, but for four pings from a windows box or a 
mistyped IP address in a URL and they are worried about our "attack" These 
bogus reports outnumber legitimate complaints 4:1.

-Robert


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