Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 00:12:07 EDT, Robert Boyle <robert () tellurian com>  said:

> What gets me is the moron admins who track down every "attack" they see. 
> "Attacks" such as ICMP echo requests, Port 80 connections, etc. If they get 
> huge logs that's one thing, but for four pings from a windows box or a 
> mistyped IP address in a URL and they are worried about our "attack" These 
> bogus reports outnumber legitimate complaints 4:1.

My favorite:

"ntp-1.vt.edu is portscanning me very slowly with source port 123...."

The really sad ones are the ones who 3 days earlier dropped me a note to tell
me they'll using our NTP server.....

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