How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

Mon Jul 23 19:48:05 UTC 2007

> On 7/23/07, Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:
> > All right, here we go.  Please explain the nature of the bot on my freshly
> > installed (last night) FreeBSD 6.2R box.
> 
> %age of freshly installed freebsd 6.2R boxes v/s random windows boxes
> on cox cable?

That's fairly irrelevant.  The fact is that this isn't targetting infected
boxes, it's targetting everyone.

> Like anything else, its a numbers game.

All of computing is a numbers game.  That doesn't make it right to go around
breaking random services just because it might fix some random problem.

... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.