Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Mike Tancsa wrote:

> I dont think this would work too well.  The users who are infected 
> often think something is wrong because their connection and computer 
> are not working quite right. So they disconnect / reconnect / reboot 
> so they burn through quite a few dynamic IP addresses along the way.
This is an artifact of ISP´s wanting to have static IP´s as an add-on 
premium service
so they provide short lease times and change IP as often as it´s 
feasible without
interrupting service unneccessarily.

Pete