Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
> > So how do you connect to the real IRC server, then?  Remember that most
> > end users are not nslookup-wielding shell commandos who can figure out
> > whois and look up the IP.
>
> If those users are so technically unsophisticated, do you really expect 
the other users with infected computers to figure out how to disinfect 
their computer and remove the Bots instead?
>

I would imagine that if we're talking about "unsophisticated" users,
the majority of them have no idea what IRC is anyway -- most of them
are using AIM, or Yahoo! IM, or....

- - ferg

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