Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 01:58 Canada/Eastern, Matthew S. Hallacy 
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:42:16PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > North Texas charges students $30 if their computer is infected, and 
> > needs
> > to be cleaned.
>
> Excellent, perhaps they'll learn early that they have to patch often.

That won't save them when the time required to download the patch set 
is an order of magnitude greater than the mean time to infection.

Seems to me that it would be far more effective to simply prohibit 
connection of machines without acceptable operating systems to the 
network. That would send a more appropriate message to the vendor, too 
(better than "don't bother to test before you release, we'll pay to 
clean up the resulting mess").


Joe