Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Petri Helenius wrote:
> > > After all these years, I'm still surprised a consortium of ISP's haven't 
> > > figured out a way to do something a-la Packet Fence for their clients where 
> > > - whenever an infected machine is detected after logging in, that machine 
> > > is thrown into say a VLAN with instructions on how to clean their machines 
> > > before they're allowed to go further and stay online.
> > This has been commercially available for quite some time so it would be only 
> > up to the providers to implement it.
>
> Public ISPs have been testing these types of systems for over 5 years. 
> What sorts of differences can you think of that would explain why public
> ISPs have found them not very effective?
>
> Public ISPs have been using walled gardens for a long time for user 
> registration and collecting credit card information.  So they know how to
> implement walled gardens.  But what happens when public ISPs use it for 
> infected machines?

Many already do, successfully.

When I say many I actually mean I know of 6. 3 of them huge, 3 of them
relatively small.