Convention networks and viruses

Thu Jul 29 16:47:30 UTC 2004

> A buncha technically clueless newsgeeks brought infected micro$loth
> computers into a convention?  Shocking!  What's this world coming to???
> Sounds like Verizon hired low-end netgeeks if they had to bring the
> network down to find these infected computers.

Maybe they could have benifited from attending Nanog in Miami:

  ** Airborne Contagion: Effects of a Worm on Wireless Networking
     http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/chin.html

  ** Life on a University Network: An Architecture for Automatically 
     Detecting, Isolating, and Cleaning Infected Hosts
     http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/gauthier.html

I mean, when the Universities deal with this stuff better than you do,
you have to start to wonder ;)

Eric :)