More on the DDoS Attack

Sat Sep 6 01:15:02 UTC 2003

Sean Donelan wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Eric Gauthier wrote:
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>>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
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>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?
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Does that not come with the SUS server (for Microsoft patches)?

/ Mat

(You gotta love that acronym)