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Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:34:40 -0500

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:40:48 +0200, Gadi Evron said:

Many ISP's who do care about issues such as worms, infected users 
"spreading the love", etc. simply do not have the man-power to handle 
all their infected users' population.

It is becoming more and more obvious that the answer may not be at the 
ISP's doorstep, but the ISP's are indeed a critical part of the 
solution. What their eventual role in user safety will be I can only 
guess, but it is clear (to me) that this subject is going to become a 
lot "hotter" in coming years.

The ISPs will be a part of the solution.  However, ISPs fall into two major
categories:

1) The ones that read the types of lists that you posted this to
2) The ones that have the problem.

You're preaching to the choir, Gadi - and if there's *one* thing I'd like a
solution for, it's *that* problem.  How do you get the unwashed masses of ISPs
to join the choir so you can preach to them?


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