Re: Blocking not friendly traffic

[Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt () innominate com>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:47:56PM +0700, ??????? ??????? wrote:

> Nothing ... After some time my IIS5+Index server again infected.
> Question: with snort I can block this traffic or not? Or I must
> use normal firewall (like Firewall-1 or other firewall)???

If the alert is triggered, the packet already infected your machine.
So there's little you can do. Normal firewall won't help, because it's
legitimate traffic (the point of a webserver is to server webpages!)

If you want servers that work, stay up, perform, and aren't rooted
every other second, use Apache on OpenBSD.

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