Re: Its not just Spam and DDOS anymore (was Re: OT: Re: User negligence?)

["Peter Gray" <petgray () hotmail com>]

On the subject of host security issues and spam, try doing a search of the 
Usenet archive for '"Net Access Corporation" spam'.  You get 328 results.  
And those are just the spams which people have traced to NAC, never mind the 
millions of untraced ones....


> From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
> To: Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>
> CC: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Its not just Spam and DDOS anymore (was Re: OT: Re: User 
> negligence?)
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> On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > I think there is confusion here.
> Yep. No problem, I think we've cleared it up.
>
> > The banks are making the claim, that, if you the user, has an infected 
> PC,
> > that is compromised by an 3lit3 h4x0r, and your password to your bank
> > account is compromised, then the bank is not responsible.
> >
> > That is what you are saying, Sean?
>
> I posted the dots, but failed to explicitly connect them.
>
> People have been talking about DDOS, spammers and the underground economy.
>
> Folks, its not underground any more.  The criminals are using trojans
> to steal real money from real people now.
>
> Firewalls can't stop it, ISPs can't stop it.  Its a *HOST* security issue.
>
> For most home users the choices are get Microsoft to fix its software, or
> buy a Macintosh (hide Unix under the hood). For an extra $20 Dell will
> pre-configure the system security settings for business purchasers; but
> home users are still on their own.

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