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Re: botted hosts
From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:31:50 +0300
Sean Donelan wrote:
It's easy to some extent, databases to a few hundred thousand are easy to collect but going to the millions is harder.Locating bots is relatively easy. If you think that is the hard part, you don't understand the problem.
Experience tells that telling (obviously automatically) the users that their computer is too unsafe to be on the public internet and it'll stay that way until they either fix it or change to a less clueful provider works wonders.So how do you encourage people to fix their computers, without the press writing lots of stories about "evil" ISPs cut off service to grandmother's on social security looking at pictures of their grandchildren.
If the nanog readership is a few thousands, that's only ~5-10k for each of us. Piece of cake. And I still don't buy the number. I might buy 2M.There are at least 20 million and probably more compromised computers on the Internet. Who has a plan to fix them?
Pete
Current thread:
- Re: botted hosts, (continued)
- Re: botted hosts Sean Donelan (Apr 03)
- Re: botted hosts Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 03)
- Re: botted hosts Sean Donelan (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Alex Bligh (Apr 04)
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- Re: botted hosts Sean Donelan (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Simon Waters (Apr 05)
- Re: botted hosts Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 03)
- Re: botted hosts Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Florian Weimer (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Petri Helenius (Apr 05)
- Re: botted hosts Sean Donelan (Apr 03)
- Re: botted hosts Petri Helenius (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Peter Corlett (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Florian Weimer (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Peter Corlett (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Petri Helenius (Apr 04)
- RE: botted hosts Ejay Hire (Apr 07)
- Re: botted hosts Sean Donelan (Apr 04)
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- Re: botted hosts Jay R. Ashworth (Apr 04)
- Re: botted hosts Paul Vixie (Apr 04)