More on the DDoS Attack

Fri Sep 5 23:54:04 UTC 2003

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Eric Gauthier wrote:
> the registration process, we scan each computer.  If we catch something,
> we force them to run a list of patching/cleaning tools before we allow the
> system to be registered.  By Wednesday at 5pm, we'd stopped 3,400 computers

Where you able to obtain redistribution licenses from the vendors, such as
Microsoft, to distribute the patches to your students?  Or did your
restricted VLAN allow them enough access to the Internet to download the
tools directly from the vendor's web sites?