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

Mon Oct 6 04:49:01 UTC 2003

Robert Boyle [10/6/2003 9:42 AM] :

> 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.

99% of them autogenerated by "personal firewall products".  That include 
*screenshots* of "attack reports".

Those can be safely auto-trashed, 99.999% of them are completely bogus 
stuff like "your DNS server is hacking me!!!!"

	srs

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Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at outblaze.com> gpg# EDEDEFB9
Security and Antispam Operations Manager, Outblaze Limited