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Re: The home user problem returns
From: ant () notatla org uk (Antonomasia)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:29:36 +0100
From: mason () schmitt ca Those sound like good ideas.
Getting away from people oriented approaches now. I'm planning to setup a "leper colony" (kudos to whomever coined that term. I also hope I'm not offending anyone...). The idea is simply to quarantine obviously infected machines from the rest of our network, and preferably from other members
There should be a charge for each occurrance of this. Give it a more acceptable name and teach the customers it's a service like towing their car out of a ditch.
immediately upon seeing spam from a spam zombie - even if the zombie is attempting to relay through our smarthost as opposed to the usual direct-to-mx spam zombie activity.
That should be easy to detect according to Richard Clayton. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rnc1/extrusion.pdf see also http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rnc1/incoming.pdf And in another mail:
Marcus and most of the rest of you, please keep preaching solid security principles to businesses and governments,
On a good day they pay twice as much attention as the home users. I could make a game of writing down things that happen at work and people guessing which ones are true. -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant notatla.org.uk # # See http://www.notatla.org.uk/ # ############################################################## _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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