Re: Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help)

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists () gmail com>]

On 6/18/07, Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org> wrote:
> Of course, though 25 is (afaik ;) the most abused one that will annoy a
> lot of other folks with spam, phishings and virus distribution, though
> the latter seems to have come to a near halt from what I see.

Read these and weep, then -
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/port25.pdf
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/zombies.pdf

As Joe says (and I agree), trying to fix infected hosts on your
network by blocking port 25 is like treating lung cancer with cough
syrup.

srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)