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Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445
From: Saku Ytti <saku+nanog () ytti fi>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:22:10 +0300
On (2005-08-15 18:51 +0000), surfer () mauigateway com wrote:
NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem in blocking it.
I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet and how not to. There are real solutions to the problem, which include monitoring the end-user traffic and do traffic steering for infected hosts to a web page thats helps solving their problem.
For example: grc.com/su-techzone1.htm scott ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> To: nanog list <nanog () merit edu> Subject: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:51:43 +0200I heard from several different big ISP's that to stop the spread of the worm they now block tcp/445. I suppose it works. Gadi.
-- ++ytti
Current thread:
- zotob - blocking tcp/445 Gadi Evron (Aug 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 surfer () mauigateway com (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Saku Ytti (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Saku Ytti (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Daniel Golding (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Gadi Evron (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Gadi Evron (Aug 15)
- Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Saku Ytti (Aug 15)