mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

Wed Aug 9 17:05:45 UTC 2006

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:10:21 -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
>Yup this is a social problem.  Just like there's nothing actually stopping
>any of us from beating up a guy on the street, we don't do it because it
>isn't legal, doesn't make sense, etc.  Some muggers do, the people in
>control of the SPAM problem are the muggers....the people with infected
>systems are just the ones who've been mugged.

The ones who've been mugged don't start mugging other people, infected
PCs will infect other PCs. That's the difference, and that's why an
ISP should do something about that. Although it may be out of fashion,
I'd like to see good netizenship.

Gr,

Arjan H