Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

Joe Maimon jmaimon at ttec.com
Thu Feb 3 15:12:09 UTC 2005




Joel Perez wrote:

>I keep reading these articles and reports about this botnet and that
>botnet problem and how many user's pc's are infected.
>The only thing I don't see is a way to remove these bots!
>Not everyone knows how to even look at their machines for signs of these
>bots. Heck, I know most of my guys here don't even know how these bots
>work.
>
>It would be impossible to educate everybody but it's better to try than
>sitting around blocking this and that and not really solving the issue
>at hand.
>
>  
>
That again. Thats not an operational problem. Thats a help desk issue. 
Operational is mail-ops nailing these infected people and net-ops 
cutting them off at the knees and yanking their connectivity. This is 
exactly the direction we want things to be heading.




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