Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

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Scott Weeks wrote:
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
> From: Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org>
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>>Many ISP's who do care about issues such as worms,
>>infected users  "spreading the love", etc. simply do not
>>have the man-power to handle  all their infected users'
>>population.
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> 
>>Some who are user/broadband ISP's (not say, tier-1 and
>>tier-2's who  would be against it: "don't be the
>>Internet's Firewall") are blocking  ports such as 139 and
>>445 for a long time now, successfully preventing  many of
>>their users from becoming infected. This is also an
>>excellent  first step for responding to relevant outbreaks
>>and halting their progress.
>>
>>Philosophy aside, it works. It stops infections. Period.
>>
>>Back to the philosophy, there are some other solutions as
>>well. Plus,  should this even be done?
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> Oh geez, here we go again...  Search the archives and read
> until you're content.  It's a non-thread.  This horse isn't
> only dead, it's not even a grease spot on the road any more.
>  :-(

I quite agree, which is why I trived to cover the philosophical part 
from both sides. Now, how about some solutions that came about since our 
last discussion that was nothing BUT philosophy?

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